Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Upper Turkeyfoot Township commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 5% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. There are 31 jobs in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, against 433 working residents. Jobs and income earn Upper Turkeyfoot Township B−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Upper Turkeyfoot Township, in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Upper Turkeyfoot Township
On income, poverty and job access, Upper Turkeyfoot Township is better than 45% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Upper Turkeyfoot Township’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.8%) is left out: Upper Turkeyfoot 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 Turkeyfoot Township could be anywhere from C to B.
How many people are in Upper Turkeyfoot Township by day
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Upper Turkeyfoot Township on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Where Upper Turkeyfoot Township’s working residents head each day
Where Upper Turkeyfoot Township clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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, not services: 52% of the jobs in Upper Turkeyfoot Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 31. 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 Upper Turkeyfoot Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Upper Turkeyfoot Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Upper Turkeyfoot Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 404 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 Upper Turkeyfoot Township
About 24% 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.
Upper Turkeyfoot Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Upper Turkeyfoot Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 2.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 426 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). 1.4% of Upper Turkeyfoot Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Upper Turkeyfoot Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Upper Turkeyfoot Township next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 1,182nd of 3,133 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,180 | Shoreham VT | 1,284 | $94K | 8.3% | 0.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,181 | Macon IL | 1,120 | $69K | 7.4% | 2.0% | 9% | B− |
| 1,182 | Upper Turkeyfoot Township PA | 1,036 | $75K | 4.8% | 6.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,183 | Amnicon WI | 1,213 | $62K | 5.7% | 2.5% | 2% | B− |
| 1,184 | Hastings PA | 1,168 | $71K | 7.4% | 0.0% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Upper Turkeyfoot Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Upper Turkeyfoot Township
The biggest share goes to Lower Turkeyfoot Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Upper Turkeyfoot Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Turkeyfoot Township | – | B− | D | 29 min | $75,298 |
| Lower Turkeyfoot Township | 3% | — | — | 43 min | — |
| Addison Township | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Black Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Middlecreek Township | 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Milford Township | 2% | C | C | 22 min | $69,000 |
| Casselman | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Springfield Township | under 2% | D | D | 29 min | $56,667 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lower Turkeyfoot Township, Black Township, Middlecreek Township and Casselman: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Addison Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Upper Turkeyfoot 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 Upper Turkeyfoot Township: questions
What is the median household income in Upper Turkeyfoot Township?
$75,298 (±$7,233) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Upper Turkeyfoot Township?
4.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Upper Turkeyfoot Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Upper Turkeyfoot Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Somerset (16%, 14 mi), Somerset Township (9%, 15 mi), Rockwood (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Upper Turkeyfoot Township walkable?
Upper Turkeyfoot Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Upper Turkeyfoot 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 Turkeyfoot Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Upper Turkeyfoot 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.