Troy Public High School · Photo: Smallbones · CC0Troy has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 855 people commute in to work
924 jobs are based in Troy for 474 working residents. Jobs and income earn Troy D−; getting around on foot earns it A. Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Troy apart on work
Inside Troy’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Troy is better than 3% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Troy’s grade.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Troy’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, Troy could be anywhere from D− to D.
The daily commute in and out of Troy
On a workday 405 residents head out to work and 69 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Troy on a workday afternoon, 37% more 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.
The towns that send workers to Troy
Where Troy clocks in
12% 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.
What Troy’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Troy, 2013 → 2023: 1,059 → 924. 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 Troy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Troy’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Troy workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 594 commuters (the 5% 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 Troy
About 24% 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.
Troy is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Troy is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Troy 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 622 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). 15.2% of Troy households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Troy’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, and where Troy sits
| # | 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% | 1% | 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% | 16% | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,567 | Beverly OH | 1,200 | $46K | 25.0% | 1.5% | 9% | D− |
| 4,568 | Stratford OK | 1,437 | $41K | 26.5% | 7.1% | 10% | D− |
| 4,569 | Troy PA | 1,227 | $51K | 29.7% | 1.7% | 15% | D− |
| 4,570 | Howland ME | 1,166 | $49K | 25.2% | 10.0% | 13% | D− |
| 4,571 | Grand Ronde OR | 1,549 | $53K | 24.8% | 4.0% | 25% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Troy, 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 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 Troy: questions
What is the median household income in Troy?
$51,016 (±$7,897) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Troy?
29.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Troy?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Troy work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Troy Township (12%, 2 mi), Sayre (6%, 20 mi), Towanda (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Troy walkable?
Troy is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Troy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Troy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Troy
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.