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Farmland viewed from Warwick to Ephrata Rail Trail east of Rothsville Station RoadPhoto: Dough4872 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jobs & commute in Warwick Township

Unemployment in Warwick Township (2.2%) is lower than in 82% of U.S. towns

Household incomes here are higher than in 80% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Warwick Township is better than 92% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten work in Warwick Township itself; outside it, Manheim Township draws the most (10%, 4 miles).

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

What stands out

Work in Warwick Township: the figures worth knowing

Jobs & income grade

How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Warwick Township

All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Warwick Township’s grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.

Household income $104,013 (±$13,689) · PA $77,971 · U.S. $80,734Higher than 80% of U.S. towns
Poverty 4.9% · PA 11.7% · U.S. 12.5%Lower than 81% of U.S. towns
Unemployment 2.2% (±2.1) · PA 5.3% · U.S. 5.2%Lower than 82% of U.S. towns
Job access by car EPA, jobs within a 45-minute driveMore than 79% of U.S. towns
Pennsylvania towns we grade 1,035 towns#115 of 1,035
B+A+

A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Warwick Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.

How TownRatings grades jobs & income →

★ What stands out · The commute map

Where Warwick Township’s working residents head each day

Lititz: 646 residents work here (7%)Ephrata: 175 residents work here (2%)Lancaster: 849 residents work here (9%)East Hempfield Township: 433 residents work here (5%)West Earl Township: 179 residents work here (2%)Clay TownshipEast Lampeter Township: 256 residents work here (3%)Manor TownshipPenn Township: 176 residents work here (2%)Rapho TownshipWarwick TownshipUpper Leacock Township: 207 residents work here (2%)Elizabeth TownshipEphrata TownshipManheim Township: 879 residents work here (10%)BrownstownRothsvilleManheim TownshipLancasterLititzEast Hempfield TownshipEast Lampeter TownshipUpper Leacock TownshipWarwick Township
1
Manheim Township4.5 mi away
10%879
2
Lancaster7.9 mi away
9%849
3
Warwick Township (in town)right here
8%758
4
Lititz1.2 mi away
7%646
55%433
63%256
72%207
82%179
9
Penn Township5.5 mi away
2%176
10
Ephrata5.6 mi away
2%175
Everywhere elseother towns and states
49%4,426
The top trips

Where Warwick Township clocks in

Lines 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.

Day and night

How a workday changes Warwick Township

On a workday 8,226 residents head out to work, 758 work right here, and 6,146 people come in from elsewhere.

8,226live here, work elsewhere
758live and work here
6,146work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night20,000
Workday17,000
20,000live here− 8,200head out to work+ 6,100come in to work= 17,000on a workday

About 17,000 people are in Warwick Township on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.77jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The jobs

In Warwick Township, 32% of jobs are in factories, building or farming

6,904 jobs are based in Warwick Township.

Jobs based in Warwick TownshipJobs Warwick Township residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms32%21%
Trade, transport & utilities23%20%
Services: health, schools, offices45%58%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less15%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%21%
Over $3,333 a month62%63%

Who does it

29 or younger25%23%
30 to 5448%47%
55 and older27%30%
+11%

Jobs based in Warwick Township, 2013 → 2023: 6,218 → 6,904. 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 Warwick Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Time on the road

A commute of about 24 minutes in Warwick Township

A year of commuting
187 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Warwick Township24 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
13%

of Warwick Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How Warwick Township gets to work
84%Drive alone
13%Carpool
<1%Transit
1%Walk
<1%Bike
2%Other

Share of the 8,711 commuters (the 13% 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.

How far

Close to home or a long way: work trips from Warwick Township

10 mi25 mi30 miManheim Township: 10% · 4.5 miLancaster: 9% · 7.9 miLititz: 7% · 1.2 miEast Hempfield Township: 5% · 7.4 miEast Lampeter Township: 3% · 8.9 miUpper Leacock Township: 2% · 7.3 miWest Earl Township: 2% · 5.5 miPenn Township: 2% · 5.5 miEphrata: 2% · 5.6 miManheim Township 10%Lancaster 9%Lititz 7%Warwick Township
Warwick TownshipTop destinations (size = commuters)
58%Under 10 mi5,192 residents
20%10–24 mi1,817 residents
12%25–50 mi1,042 residents
10%Over 50 mi907 residents

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.

Getting around · Walkability grade

Driving is how Warwick Township gets around

EPA walkability index 6.8 of 20 · typical PA town 6.7 · U.S. 6.9Higher than 48% of U.S. towns
Walk, bike or transit 1.6% of commuters · PA 8.6% · U.S. 7.1%Higher than 40% of U.S. towns
Pennsylvania towns we grade 1,035 towns#682 of 1,035
C+C+

A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 10,049 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

Philadelphia37.7
Warwick Township0.0

Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.0% of Warwick Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Warwick Township’s commuters take a bus or train.

Towns its size

Ranked on jobs and income, Warwick Township is 250th among 1,760 U.S. towns of 14,000 to 26,000

#TownPeopleHousehold incomePovertyUnemploymentWork in townGrade
1Rogers MN15,606$159K1.9%1.2%10%A+
2West Springfield VA22,532$163K1.9%1.7%3%A+
3Ada Township MI14,769$168K2.0%0.7%10%A+
…
8Lower Moreland Township PA14,116$154K2.6%2.0%6%A+
…
14West Whiteland Township PA20,826$133K3.0%1.7%7%A+
…
23Skippack Township PA14,502$148K2.5%2.4%5%A+
…
248Mansfield MA24,236$125K4.7%3.4%10%A
249Pelham NH14,828$136K3.7%3.5%7%A
250Warwick Township PA19,533$104K4.9%2.2%8%A
251Rutherford NJ19,132$143K5.5%4.2%6%A
252Ridgefield CT25,373$179K3.5%3.9%20%A
…
1,760Douglas AZ16,038$42K27.8%12.3%29%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 Warwick Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.

Next door

14% of Warwick Township works in a town next door

Jobs & commute next door

TownWarwick Township workers thereJobs & incomeWalkabilityCommuteHousehold income
Warwick Township–AC+24 min$104,013
Elizabeth Townshipunder 2%A+B22 min$99,583
Ephrata Townshipunder 2%B+B+24 min$85,058
West Earl Township2%A−A−21 min$98,068
Brownstownunder 2%——21 min—
Clay Townshipunder 2%AC−28 min$84,389
Penn Township2%AC+25 min$87,620
Manheim Township10%AB+20 min$102,134

Same-state neighbors only. Brownstown: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.

The biggest share goes to Manheim Township. Darker towns draw more of Warwick Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Warwick Township: questions

What is the median household income in Warwick Township?

$104,013 (±$13,689) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Warwick Township?

4.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Warwick Township?

24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.

Where do people who live in Warwick Township work?

8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manheim Township (10%, 4 mi), Lancaster (9%, 8 mi), Lititz (7%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Is Warwick Township walkable?

Warwick Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.

Can you get around Warwick Township without a car?

<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Warwick Township, from the people who make the trip.

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Beyond the commute

More of Warwick Township

Warwick Township home →

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.