Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Tulpehocken Township
Jobs and income earn Tulpehocken Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 4% work in Tulpehocken Township itself; outside it, Jackson Township draws the most (6%, 5 miles). Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, against 16% across Pennsylvania.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Tulpehocken Township: the figures worth knowing
Jobs in Tulpehocken Township have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Tulpehocken Township went from 381 in 2014 to 1,117 in 2024, +193%. The jobs ↓
Tulpehocken Township makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Tulpehocken Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tulpehocken Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
40% of the jobs in Tulpehocken Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 23% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Tulpehocken Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tulpehocken Township is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #695 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Tulpehocken Township’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tulpehocken Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Making and building: 35% of jobs based in Tulpehocken Township
1,117 jobs are based in Tulpehocken Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tulpehocken Township, 2014 → 2024: 381 → 1,117. 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 Tulpehocken Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Tulpehocken Township
On a workday 1,488 residents head out to work, 67 work right here, and 1,050 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Tulpehocken Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Tulpehocken Township: the destinations
Where Tulpehocken Township clocks in
6% of workers
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.
Getting to work from Tulpehocken Township takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tulpehocken Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,489 commuters (the 9% 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.
How many miles Tulpehocken Township commutes
About 17% 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.
Driving is how Tulpehocken Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tulpehocken Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #680 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,634 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). 4.3% of Tulpehocken Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Tulpehocken Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tulpehocken Township is 2,212th among 4,318 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 22 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
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| 27 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,210 | Higginsville MO | 4,770 | $81K | 6.8% | 4.4% | 21% | B− |
| 2,211 | Jamestown Township IN | 3,263 | $76K | 6.1% | 5.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,212 | Tulpehocken Township PA | 3,703 | $82K | 13.5% | 4.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,213 | North Shore VA | 3,638 | $110K | 10.3% | 4.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,214 | Boulevard Park WA | 4,575 | $79K | 28.0% | 4.6% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Tulpehocken Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 11% of Tulpehocken Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tulpehocken Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulpehocken Township | – | B− | C+ | 24 min | $81,685 |
| Bethel Township | 3% | B+ | C+ | 27 min | $93,958 |
| Frystown | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Jackson Township | 6% | A | C | 24 min | $84,241 |
| Upper Tulpehocken Township | under 2% | B+ | B− | 27 min | $90,833 |
| Marion Township | under 2% | B+ | B− | 25 min | $80,294 |
| Jefferson Township | 2% | A | B | 30 min | $116,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Frystown: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Jackson Township. Darker towns draw more of Tulpehocken 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 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 Tulpehocken Township: questions
What is the median household income in Tulpehocken Township?
$81,685 (±$11,770) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tulpehocken Township?
13.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tulpehocken Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tulpehocken Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson Township (6%, 5 mi), Reading (5%, 18 mi), Bethel Township (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Tulpehocken Township walkable?
Tulpehocken Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tulpehocken Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tulpehocken Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tulpehocken Township
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. 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.