Cold Spring Farm · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJobs and earnings in Todd Township, and the trip to work
Jobs and income earn Todd Township C+; getting around on foot earns it C−. For 6% of workers, the job is at home; Pennsylvania has 16%. About one in ten work in Todd Township itself; outside it, Ayr Township draws the most (19%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Todd Township: the figures worth knowing
Why Todd Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Todd Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Todd Township’s grade up (7.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Todd 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, Todd Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
The towns that employ Todd Township’s residents
Where Todd Township clocks in
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.
Todd Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 582 residents head out to work, 60 work right here, and 531 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 (0.92 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.
What the 591 jobs in Todd Township are
591 jobs are based in Todd Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Todd Township, 2013 → 2023: 481 → 591. 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 Todd Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Todd Township: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Todd Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 844 commuters (the 6% 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.
Miles to work from Todd Township
About 23% 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.
Most of Todd Township commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 894 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). 9.8% of Todd Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Todd Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Todd Township next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200: 2,921st of 6,161 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,919 | Noble Township KS | 1,927 | $76K | 9.1% | 6.0% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,920 | Fenner NY | 1,610 | $78K | 11.5% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,921 | Todd Township PA | 1,617 | $74K | 7.9% | 3.5% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,922 | Napier Township PA | 2,042 | $62K | 11.1% | 2.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,923 | Porter Township PA | 2,188 | $73K | 7.2% | 5.3% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Todd Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Todd Township and its neighbors: 27% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Todd Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd Township | – | C+ | C− | 23 min | $74,485 |
| Ayr Township | 19% | C | C | 28 min | $61,818 |
| Metal Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 29 min | $79,750 |
| McConnellsburg | 8% | D− | A+ | 16 min | $36,875 |
| Dublin Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Peters Township | under 2% | B− | C+ | 30 min | $76,829 |
| Licking Creek Township | under 2% | C | C− | 29 min | $78,036 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dublin Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Ayr Township. Darker towns draw more of Todd 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 Todd Township: questions
What is the median household income in Todd Township?
$74,485 (±$10,510) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Todd Township?
7.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Todd Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Todd Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ayr Township (19%, 8 mi), McConnellsburg (8%, 4 mi), Chambersburg (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Todd Township walkable?
Todd Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Todd Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Todd Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Todd 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.