Photo: Nicholas from Pennsylvania, USA · CC BY 2.0At 5.8%, unemployment in Upper Mount Bethel Township is higher than in 72% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Upper Mount Bethel Township are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. 8% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across Pennsylvania. About one in ten stay in Upper Mount Bethel Township for work; outside it, Bethlehem is the main destination (3%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Upper Mount Bethel Township at work: what stands out
Upper Mount Bethel Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 44 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 337 hours of commuting, 138 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
No single place dominates Upper Mount Bethel Township’s commute
The biggest draw, Bethlehem, gets only 3% of working residents, and 69% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Upper Mount Bethel Township residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Upper Mount Bethel Township makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Upper Mount Bethel Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Upper Mount Bethel Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. 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.
Jobs & income in Upper Mount Bethel Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Upper Mount Bethel Township is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #647 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The poverty rate holds Upper Mount Bethel Township’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Upper Mount Bethel Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
A commute of about 44 minutes in Upper Mount Bethel Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Upper Mount Bethel Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,888 commuters (the 8% 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.
Where Upper Mount Bethel Township goes to work
Where Upper Mount Bethel Township clocks in
3% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Goods jobs make up 46% of work in Upper Mount Bethel Township
1,537 jobs are based in Upper Mount Bethel Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Upper Mount Bethel Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,315 → 1,537. 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 Upper Mount Bethel Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Upper Mount Bethel Township
On a workday 2,276 residents head out to work, 271 work right here, and 1,266 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,500 people are in Upper Mount Bethel Township on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.60 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Upper Mount Bethel Township
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Upper Mount Bethel Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Upper Mount Bethel Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns, #790 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,138 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). 5.9% of Upper Mount Bethel Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Upper Mount Bethel Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,700, Upper Mount Bethel Township ranks 1,714th of 3,306 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
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| 24 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,712 | Nazareth PA | 6,091 | $57K | 16.0% | 1.9% | 7% | B− |
| 1,713 | Duryea PA | 5,157 | $62K | 22.6% | 0.7% | 5% | B− |
| 1,714 | Upper Mount Bethel Township PA | 6,463 | $82K | 6.2% | 5.8% | 11% | B− |
| 1,715 | Hanamaulu HI | 4,972 | $82K | 6.2% | 4.4% | 1% | B− |
| 1,716 | Spirit Lake IA | 5,525 | $66K | 6.3% | 3.1% | 36% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,306 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Upper Mount Bethel Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Around Upper Mount Bethel Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Portland (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Upper Mount Bethel Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Mount Bethel Township | – | B− | C | 44 min | $82,009 |
| East Bangor | under 2% | B− | C+ | 36 min | $81,250 |
| Portland | 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Stroud Township | 2% | B | A− | 34 min | $95,087 |
| Washington Township | 2% | B+ | C− | 32 min | $86,442 |
| Hamilton Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 38 min | $74,414 |
| Smithfield Township | under 2% | B− | A− | 48 min | $105,705 |
Same-state neighbors only. Portland: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Upper Mount Bethel 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 Upper Mount Bethel Township: questions
What is the median household income in Upper Mount Bethel Township?
$82,009 (±$15,864) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Upper Mount Bethel Township?
6.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Upper Mount Bethel Township?
44 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Upper Mount Bethel Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bethlehem (3%, 22 mi), Allentown (3%, 28 mi), Forks Township (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Upper Mount Bethel Township walkable?
Upper Mount Bethel Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Upper Mount Bethel Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Upper Mount Bethel Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Upper Mount Bethel 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.