Photo: Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Lawrence has higher household incomes than 63% of U.S. towns
The two grades for St. Lawrence are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Poverty touches 9.0% of residents, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania. Only 3% stay in St. Lawrence for work; outside it, Reading is the main destination (10%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in St. Lawrence: the figures worth knowing
Inside St. Lawrence’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, St. Lawrence is better than 74% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: St. Lawrence’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, St. Lawrence could be anywhere from B to A.
The 1,515 jobs based in St. Lawrence
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Lawrence, 2013 → 2023: 650 → 1,515. 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 St. Lawrence’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in St. Lawrence, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,103 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 1,485 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in St. Lawrence on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places St. Lawrence commutes to
Where St. Lawrence clocks in
10% of workers
5% 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.
About 27 minutes each way for St. Lawrence’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Lawrence workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 782 commuters (the 16% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from St. Lawrence
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.
Driving is how St. Lawrence gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Lawrence is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 929 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.7% of St. Lawrence households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Lawrence’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600, St. Lawrence ranks 916th of 5,234 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 29 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 914 | Highland Township OH | 2,284 | $82K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 915 | Berwick Township PA | 2,475 | $85K | 8.3% | 2.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 916 | St. Lawrence PA | 1,962 | $86K | 9.0% | 5.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 917 | Amanda Township OH | 2,059 | $99K | 3.1% | 0.8% | 2% | B+ |
| 918 | Caledonia WI | 1,755 | $109K | 6.5% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 St. Lawrence, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to St. Lawrence
The biggest share goes to Exeter Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | St. Lawrence workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Lawrence | – | B+ | B | 27 min | $85,625 |
| Exeter Township | 5% | B+ | C+ | 25 min | $100,083 |
| Mount Penn | under 3% | B+ | A | 21 min | $63,512 |
| Reiffton | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Pennside | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Jacksonwald | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Lower Alsace Township | under 3% | A− | B+ | 27 min | $76,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Reiffton, Pennside and Jacksonwald: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of St. Lawrence’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 St. Lawrence: questions
What is the median household income in St. Lawrence?
$85,625 (±$12,456) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Lawrence?
9.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Lawrence?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Lawrence work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reading (10%, 3 mi), Exeter Township (5%, 2 mi), Wyomissing (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Lawrence walkable?
St. Lawrence is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Lawrence without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Lawrence, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Lawrence
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.