Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Tyrone has lower household incomes than 78% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 11.5% of residents, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania. For jobs and income Tyrone is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (A). About one in seven stay in Tyrone for work; outside it, Snyder Township is the main destination (13%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Tyrone apart on work
What’s behind Tyrone’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Tyrone’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($57,226, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tyrone could be anywhere from D to B.
Time on the road from Tyrone: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tyrone workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,482 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.
In and out of Tyrone on a workday
On a workday 1,662 residents head out to work, 254 work right here, and 955 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Tyrone on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.63 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Tyrone goes to work
Where Tyrone clocks in
10% 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.
What the 1,209 jobs in Tyrone are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tyrone, 2013 → 2023: 1,332 → 1,209. 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 Tyrone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Tyrone
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.
In Tyrone, walking beats the bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,733 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). 10.4% of Tyrone households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tyrone’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Tyrone is 2,682nd of 3,582 U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 31 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,680 | Bluefield VA | 4,839 | $54K | 15.6% | 3.4% | 11% | C |
| 2,681 | Chippewa Township MI | 4,668 | $65K | 16.4% | 4.4% | 18% | C |
| 2,682 | Tyrone PA | 5,226 | $57K | 11.5% | 5.8% | 13% | C |
| 2,683 | Orange VA | 5,365 | $76K | 14.1% | 6.7% | 21% | C |
| 2,684 | Tupper Lake NY | 5,056 | $65K | 17.4% | 2.1% | 40% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,582 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tyrone, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Tyrone
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tyrone workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrone | – | C | A | 21 min | $57,226 |
| Northwood | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Grazierville | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Northwood and Grazierville: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tyrone’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 Tyrone: questions
What is the median household income in Tyrone?
$57,226 (±$8,161) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tyrone?
11.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tyrone?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tyrone work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Snyder Township (13%, 2 mi), Altoona (10%, 14 mi), Antis Township (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tyrone walkable?
Tyrone is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tyrone without a car?
0% 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 Tyrone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tyrone
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.