Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Terre Hill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Terre Hill has 155 jobs, and 549 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Terre Hill C+; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 1% stay in Terre Hill for work; outside it, East Earl Township is the main destination (13%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Terre Hill: the figures worth knowing
Terre Hill is a place people come home to
There are 155 jobs based in Terre Hill, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Terre Hill has about 890 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Terre Hill are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania 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 549 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Terre Hill’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Terre Hill is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Terre Hill’s grade up (ahead of 78% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Terre Hill’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, Terre Hill could be anywhere from C− to A−.
How a workday changes Terre Hill
On a workday 541 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 147 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Terre Hill on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
The daily trip from Terre Hill: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Terre Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 410 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.
Where people from Terre Hill work
Where Terre Hill clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Terre Hill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Terre Hill, 2014 → 2024: 201 → 155. 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 Terre Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Terre Hill
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.
Most of Terre Hill commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Terre Hill is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Terre Hill near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 468 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). 0.5% of Terre Hill households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Terre Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Terre Hill ranks 2,085th of 4,866 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,083 | Young Township PA | 1,670 | $77K | 9.9% | 5.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,084 | Dickson OK | 1,363 | $81K | 11.1% | 1.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,085 | Terre Hill PA | 1,282 | $64K | 17.1% | 2.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,086 | Turtle Lake WI | 1,023 | $61K | 5.3% | 2.0% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,087 | East Finley Township PA | 1,286 | $78K | 9.4% | 1.5% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Terre Hill, 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 Terre Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Terre Hill?
$63,750 (±$32,740) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Terre Hill?
17.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Terre Hill?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Terre Hill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are East Earl Township (13%, 2 mi), Earl Township (6%, 4 mi), Brecknock Township (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Terre Hill walkable?
Terre Hill is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Terre Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Terre Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Terre Hill
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.