Photo: Adam Moss from Highland Park, NJ, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Texas Township has lower household incomes than 95% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Texas Township for work; outside it, Honesdale is the main destination (20%, 2 miles). 20.2% of residents live below the poverty line, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. The two grades for Texas Township are D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Texas Township
Texas Township is where the jobs are
Texas Township has 1,851 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Texas Township has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Texas Township went from 1,313 in 2013 to 1,851 in 2023, +41%. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
41% of the jobs in Texas Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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; with 995 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Texas Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Texas Township is better than 6% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Texas Township’s grade up (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($42,403, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Texas Township’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, Texas Township could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Texas Township
On a workday 883 residents head out to work, 112 work right here, and 1,739 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Texas Township on a workday afternoon, 38% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 kinds of work in Texas Township
1,851 jobs are based in Texas Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Texas Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,313 → 1,851. 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 Texas Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Texas Township
Where Texas Township clocks in
20% of workers
3% 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 21 minutes each way for Texas Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Texas Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 793 commuters (the 11% 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 in the region Texas Township works
About 25% 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.
Texas Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Texas Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% 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 891 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). 14.0% of Texas Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Texas Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Texas Township compares with U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 27 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,834 | Roodhouse Township IL | 1,764 | $59K | 25.8% | 13.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,835 | Union Township MO | 2,179 | $54K | 17.2% | 3.9% | 13% | D |
| 4,836 | Texas Township PA | 2,273 | $42K | 20.2% | 4.6% | 11% | D |
| 4,837 | Tipton CA | 2,851 | $45K | 31.1% | 10.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,838 | Monarch Mill SC | 1,822 | $39K | 21.0% | 9.6% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Texas Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 24% of Texas Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Texas Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Township | – | D | C | 21 min | $42,403 |
| Honesdale | 20% | D | A− | 23 min | $47,485 |
| Prompton | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
| Berlin Township | 2% | C− | B− | 25 min | $68,494 |
| Cherry Ridge Township | 2% | B | B | 20 min | $80,250 |
| Canaan Township | under 2% | C | C− | 28 min | $73,036 |
Same-state neighbors only. Prompton: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Honesdale. Darker towns draw more of Texas 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 Texas Township: questions
What is the median household income in Texas Township?
$42,403 (±$12,555) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Texas Township?
20.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Texas Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Texas Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Honesdale (20%, 2 mi), Scranton (3%, 23 mi), Lackawaxen Township (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Texas Township walkable?
Texas Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Texas Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Texas Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Texas 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.