Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0Springfield Township has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for Springfield Township are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in Springfield Township report 166 jobs for 492 working residents. Only 3% work in Springfield Township itself; outside it, Sayre draws the most (11%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Springfield Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Springfield Township is better than 28% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Springfield Township’s grade up (8.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Springfield Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Springfield Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who works in Springfield Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 478 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 152 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Springfield Township on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Springfield Township ends
Where Springfield Township clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
In Springfield Township, 48% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Springfield Township, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 166. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Springfield Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Springfield Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Springfield Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 463 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far Springfield Township goes to work
About 23% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Springfield Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Springfield Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 533 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.4% of Springfield Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Springfield Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Springfield Township ranks 2,167th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,165 | Wheatland Township MI | 1,342 | $75K | 12.1% | 2.6% | 2% | C |
| 2,166 | Hartford IL | 1,153 | $41K | 20.7% | 6.8% | 1% | C |
| 2,167 | Springfield Township PA | 1,128 | $66K | 8.0% | 3.3% | 3% | C |
| 2,168 | Mount Pleasant Township PA | 1,463 | $84K | 12.6% | 5.2% | 3% | C |
| 2,169 | Eldred Township PA | 1,341 | $74K | 11.1% | 6.7% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Springfield Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
How Springfield Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Springfield Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield Township | – | C | C+ | 28 min | $65,553 |
| Troy Township | 3% | D | C− | 27 min | $63,224 |
| Ridgebury Township | under 3% | C | C− | 32 min | $67,262 |
| Smithfield Township | under 3% | C+ | C | 32 min | $77,500 |
| Columbia Township | under 3% | C | C | 26 min | $69,688 |
| West Burlington Township | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. West Burlington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Troy Township. Darker towns draw more of Springfield Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Springfield Township: questions
What is the median household income in Springfield Township?
$65,553 (±$4,440) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Springfield Township?
8.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Springfield Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Springfield Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sayre (11%, 14 mi), North Towanda Township (7%, 14 mi), Wysox Township (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Springfield Township walkable?
Springfield Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Springfield Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Springfield Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Springfield Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.