Photo: Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Ulster Township works elsewhere
4% of workers work from home, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. Ulster Township has 146 jobs, against 514 working residents. Jobs and income earn Ulster Township C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ulster Township and work: the main findings
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Ulster Township
On income, poverty and job access, Ulster Township is better than 42% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ulster Township’s grade up (8.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Ulster 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, Ulster Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
The daily flow of workers through Ulster Township
On a workday 500 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 132 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Ulster Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
10% of working residents work in Sayre
Where Ulster Township 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.
Jobs in Ulster Township: what the 146 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ulster Township, 2013 → 2023: 193 → 146. 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 Ulster Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Ulster Township: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ulster Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 465 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Ulster Township
About 27% 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 Ulster Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ulster Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ulster 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 487 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). 9.0% of Ulster Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ulster Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Ulster Township ranks 2,082nd of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 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+ |
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| 2,080 | Northport ME | 1,640 | $74K | 5.9% | 4.8% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,081 | Empire Township MI | 1,168 | $95K | 10.3% | 0.7% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,082 | Ulster Township PA | 1,296 | $76K | 8.0% | 4.3% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,083 | Young Township PA | 1,670 | $77K | 9.9% | 5.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,084 | Dickson OK | 1,363 | $81K | 11.1% | 1.2% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Ulster Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Ulster Township
The biggest share goes to Athens Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ulster Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster Township | – | C+ | C− | 24 min | $76,250 |
| Sheshequin Township | under 3% | C− | C | 23 min | $62,321 |
| Smithfield Township | under 3% | C+ | C | 32 min | $77,500 |
| Burlington Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Athens Township | 5% | C | B | 22 min | $72,237 |
Same-state neighbors only. Burlington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ulster 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 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 Ulster Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ulster Township?
$76,250 (±$13,451) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ulster Township?
8.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ulster Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ulster Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sayre (10%, 9 mi), Athens Township (5%, 7 mi), Towanda (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ulster Township walkable?
Ulster Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ulster Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ulster Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ulster Township
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.