Toftrees has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 286 jobs in Toftrees, and 965 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Toftrees itself; outside it, College Township draws the most (31%, 4 miles). For 22% of workers, the job is at home; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Toftrees and work: the main findings
Most Toftrees residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
31% of Toftrees works in College Township
295 working residents, 31%, have their main job in College Township, 3.6 miles away. That’s 31 times as many as work in Toftrees itself. The commute map ↓
Toftrees is a place people come home to
There are 286 jobs based in Toftrees, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 965 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where in the region Toftrees 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.
Out of Toftrees to work: where people go
Where Toftrees clocks in
31% of workers
12% of workers
10% 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.
Toftrees by day and by night
On a workday 957 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 278 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Toftrees on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Toftrees
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Toftrees, 2013 → 2023: 212 → 286. 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 Toftrees’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes to work from Toftrees
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Toftrees workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 904 commuters (the 22% 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.
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 Toftrees: questions
What is the median household income in Toftrees?
$73,721 (±$24,161) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Toftrees?
25.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Toftrees?
18 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Toftrees work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (31%, 4 mi), State College (12%, 3 mi), Ferguson Township (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Toftrees without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Toftrees, from the people who make the trip.
More of Toftrees
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.