Taylor has higher unemployment (5.5%) than 68% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Taylor B−; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 6% stay in Taylor for work; outside it, Scranton is the main destination (25%, 3 miles). Working residents average 22 minutes each way; Pennsylvania averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Taylor stands out on work
Taylor trades workers with the towns around it
Taylor has about as many jobs (2,698) as working residents (2,521), but they are mostly different people: 2,377 residents leave for work each day while 2,554 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Taylor are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Taylor and Scranton trade workers both ways
Scranton is the top workplace for Taylor residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Taylor come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Taylor are in trade, transport and utilities, against 25% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Most Taylor residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Taylor’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Taylor is better than 47% of U.S. towns, #719 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Taylor’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Taylor could be anywhere from C to A−.
How many people are in Taylor by day
On a workday 2,377 residents head out to work, 144 work right here, and 2,554 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.07 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 Taylor commutes to
Where Taylor clocks in
25% 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.
Jobs in Taylor: what the 2,698 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taylor, 2013 → 2023: 3,106 → 2,698. 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 Taylor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Taylor works
About 20% 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.
Getting to work from Taylor takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taylor workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,703 commuters (the 12% 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.
The commute in Taylor is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taylor is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #451 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.3% 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 3,056 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). 6.2% of Taylor households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Taylor’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Taylor ranks: 1,930th of 3,297 U.S. towns of 4,400 to 8,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
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| 24 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 28 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,928 | Zephyrhills West FL | 5,980 | $52K | 11.9% | 2.8% | 2% | B− |
| 1,929 | Sandston VA | 7,399 | $59K | 13.9% | 4.1% | 6% | B− |
| 1,930 | Taylor PA | 6,232 | $72K | 11.4% | 5.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,931 | Livonia NY | 7,470 | $89K | 7.7% | 11.0% | 13% | B− |
| 1,932 | Hamilton NY | 6,348 | $75K | 7.4% | 4.2% | 37% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,297 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Taylor, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
32% of Taylor works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Scranton. Darker towns draw more of Taylor’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 Taylor: questions
What is the median household income in Taylor?
$71,599 (±$7,688) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taylor?
11.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taylor?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taylor work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (25%, 3 mi), Moosic (7%, 3 mi), Dunmore (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Taylor walkable?
Taylor is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taylor without a car?
2% 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 Taylor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taylor
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.