Photo: Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Upper Tulpehocken Township works elsewhere
There are 361 jobs in Upper Tulpehocken Township, against 724 working residents. Jobs and income earn Upper Tulpehocken Township B+; getting around on foot earns it B−. 8% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Upper Tulpehocken Township
Upper Tulpehocken Township makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Upper Tulpehocken Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Upper Tulpehocken Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Upper Tulpehocken Township pay over $40,000 a year
74% of the jobs based in Upper Tulpehocken Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. 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; with 724 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Upper Tulpehocken Township
On income, poverty and job access, Upper Tulpehocken Township is better than 72% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Upper Tulpehocken Township’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Upper Tulpehocken 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, Upper Tulpehocken Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
In Upper Tulpehocken Township, 69% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Upper Tulpehocken Township, 2014 → 2024: 363 → 361. 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 Tulpehocken Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Upper Tulpehocken Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 706 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 343 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Upper Tulpehocken Township on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
12% of working residents work in Bethel Township
Where Upper Tulpehocken Township clocks in
5% of workers
4% 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.
How long Upper Tulpehocken Township spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Upper Tulpehocken Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 768 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.
The commute from Upper Tulpehocken Township, by distance
About 16% 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.
In Upper Tulpehocken Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Upper Tulpehocken Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 834 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). 0.4% of Upper Tulpehocken Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Upper Tulpehocken Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,140th of 5,921: where Upper Tulpehocken Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,138 | Warsaw Township MN | 1,317 | $91K | 4.8% | 2.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,139 | Wayne Township OH | 1,893 | $93K | 2.8% | 2.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,140 | Upper Tulpehocken Township PA | 1,904 | $91K | 6.9% | 3.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,141 | Hickory Township PA | 2,304 | $74K | 6.2% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,142 | Venetian Village IL | 2,334 | $79K | 4.2% | 5.3% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Tulpehocken Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
14% of Upper Tulpehocken Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Bethel Township (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Upper Tulpehocken Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Tulpehocken Township | – | B+ | B− | 27 min | $90,833 |
| Bethel Township | 12% | B+ | C+ | 27 min | $93,958 |
| Upper Bern Township | under 2% | B | C | 27 min | $81,830 |
| Penn Township | under 2% | A | B− | 29 min | $97,167 |
| South Manheim Township | under 2% | B+ | D− | 34 min | $91,979 |
| Wayne Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 32 min | $98,300 |
| Shartlesville | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | A | B | 30 min | $116,250 |
| Tulpehocken Township | 2% | B− | C+ | 24 min | $81,685 |
Same-state neighbors only. Shartlesville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Upper 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 Upper Tulpehocken Township: questions
What is the median household income in Upper Tulpehocken Township?
$90,833 (±$16,569) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Upper Tulpehocken Township?
6.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Upper Tulpehocken Township?
27 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 Tulpehocken Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bethel Township (12%, 8 mi), Bethel Township (5%, 14 mi), Philadelphia (4%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Upper Tulpehocken Township walkable?
Upper Tulpehocken Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Upper Tulpehocken Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Upper Tulpehocken Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Upper 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.