Tuscarora Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Tuscarora Township has 143 jobs, against 402 working residents. The two grades for Tuscarora Township are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Tuscarora Township is ahead of 73% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Tuscarora Township
On income, poverty and job access, Tuscarora Township is better than 56% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tuscarora Township’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Tuscarora 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, Tuscarora Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Tuscarora Township by day and by night
On a workday 396 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 137 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Tuscarora Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
20% of working residents work in Wyalusing Township
Where Tuscarora Township clocks in
Lines 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.
Tuscarora Township makes things: 34% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tuscarora Township, 2014 → 2024: 139 → 143. 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 Tuscarora Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Tuscarora Township: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tuscarora Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 368 commuters (the 20% 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 Tuscarora Township
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Tuscarora Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tuscarora Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Tuscarora Township 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 459 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). 2.9% of Tuscarora Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tuscarora Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tuscarora Township is 859th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 857 | Kinderhook NY | 1,134 | $93K | 7.6% | 7.8% | 3% | B |
| 858 | Cain Township IN | 1,127 | $84K | 5.3% | 0.7% | 1% | B |
| 859 | Tuscarora Township PA | 1,057 | $95K | 4.7% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| 860 | Cottonwood MN | 1,138 | $98K | 7.1% | 1.3% | 15% | B |
| 861 | Centerville Township MI | 1,281 | $98K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Tuscarora Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
20% of Tuscarora Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tuscarora Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuscarora Township | – | B | C | 26 min | $95,313 |
| Wilmot Township | under 3% | C+ | C | 22 min | $85,000 |
| Auburn Township | under 3% | B− | C | 30 min | $88,625 |
| Wyalusing Township | 20% | C+ | A | 25 min | $90,197 |
| Braintrim Township | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Braintrim Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Wyalusing Township. Darker towns draw more of Tuscarora 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 Tuscarora Township: questions
What is the median household income in Tuscarora Township?
$95,313 (±$12,511) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tuscarora Township?
4.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tuscarora Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tuscarora Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wyalusing Township (20%, 5 mi), Mehoopany Township (7%, 10 mi), Wyalusing (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Tuscarora Township walkable?
Tuscarora Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tuscarora Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tuscarora Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tuscarora 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.