Tipton at work: jobs, income and the commute
Only 4% work in Tipton; the top destination outside it is Altoona (17%, 10 miles). At home: 3% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). A typical one-way commute lasts 19 minutes (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Tipton apart on work
Tipton makes and builds things
74% of the jobs based in Tipton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tipton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Tipton and Altoona trade workers both ways
Altoona is the top workplace for Tipton residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Tipton come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Tipton is where the jobs are
Tipton has 557 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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 344 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Factories, building and farms: 74% of the jobs in Tipton
557 jobs are based in Tipton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tipton, 2014 → 2024: 232 → 557. 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 Tipton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Tipton live
Where Tipton clocks in
17% of workers
13% 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.
A workday in Tipton: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 331 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 544 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Tipton on a workday afternoon, 29% more than live here.
1.6 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 2024, primary jobs.
Tipton’s commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tipton workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 347 commuters (the 3% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Tipton
About 22% 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.
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 Tipton: questions
What is the median household income in Tipton?
$52,045 (±$18,333) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tipton?
5.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tipton?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tipton work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altoona (17%, 10 mi), Antis Township (13%, 3 mi), Logan Township (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Tipton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tipton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tipton
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.