Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Stewartstown commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% work in Stewartstown itself; outside it, Cockeysville draws the most (6%, 19 miles). 462 jobs are based in Stewartstown for 991 working residents. Stewartstown grades B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Stewartstown apart
The better-paid jobs are outside Stewartstown
64% of Stewartstown residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 36% of the jobs based in Stewartstown pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Stewartstown pay little
32% of the jobs based in Stewartstown pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 32% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Stewartstown workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 991 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Stewartstown earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Stewartstown is better than 55% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Stewartstown’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Stewartstown’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, Stewartstown could be anywhere from C to A−.
What Stewartstown’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stewartstown, 2014 → 2024: 392 → 462. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Stewartstown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 35 minutes to work from Stewartstown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stewartstown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 699 commuters (the 20% 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.
Stewartstown quiets down on a workday
On a workday 952 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 423 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Stewartstown on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Stewartstown’s working residents head each day
Where Stewartstown clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Stewartstown
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Stewartstown: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stewartstown is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% 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 871 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). 6.8% of Stewartstown households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stewartstown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000, Stewartstown ranks 1,881st of 5,102 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 25 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | South Coventry Township PA | 2,822 | $158K | 0.9% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,879 | Desert View Highlands CA | 2,613 | $76K | 0.9% | 10.6% | <1% | B |
| 1,880 | Central Garage VA | 1,864 | $88K | 12.2% | 3.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,881 | Stewartstown PA | 2,225 | $81K | 9.5% | 5.7% | 4% | B |
| 1,882 | Shinnston WV | 2,241 | $70K | 11.8% | 2.1% | 9% | B |
| 1,883 | Bainbridge Township MI | 2,625 | $75K | 7.3% | 3.8% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Stewartstown, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Stewartstown: questions
What is the median household income in Stewartstown?
$81,250 (±$18,535) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stewartstown?
9.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stewartstown?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stewartstown work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cockeysville (6%, 19 mi), York (6%, 16 mi), York Township (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Stewartstown walkable?
Stewartstown is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stewartstown 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 Stewartstown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stewartstown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.