Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Wayne Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Only 4% work in Wayne Township itself; outside it, Meadville draws the most (21%, 11 miles). Employers in Wayne Township report 330 jobs for 584 working residents. The two grades for Wayne Township are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wayne Township at work: what stands out
The four measures behind Wayne Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wayne Township is better than 36% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wayne Township’s grade up (9.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Wayne 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, Wayne Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
Goods, not services: 53% of the jobs in Wayne Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wayne Township, 2013 → 2023: 317 → 330. 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 Wayne Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Wayne Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 558 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 304 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Wayne Township on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 Wayne Township goes to work
Where Wayne Township clocks in
21% of workers
12% 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.
About 24 minutes to work from Wayne Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wayne Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 548 commuters (the 15% 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 in the region Wayne Township works
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 Wayne Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wayne Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 641 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). 2.2% of Wayne Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wayne Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Wayne Township ranks: 2,918th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,916 | Bowling Green VA | 1,284 | $83K | 14.6% | 7.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,917 | Erin NY | 1,744 | $67K | 7.8% | 3.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,918 | Wayne Township PA | 1,399 | $75K | 9.4% | 6.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,919 | Leavittsburg OH | 1,283 | $54K | 13.2% | 1.5% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,920 | Wanamingo MN | 1,111 | $72K | 13.4% | 2.0% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Wayne Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Wayne Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wayne Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Township | – | C+ | B− | 24 min | $75,000 |
| Canal Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| East Fairfield Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Randolph Township | under 2% | C | B− | 25 min | $75,714 |
| Cochranton | 4% | C− | A− | 24 min | $59,375 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Troy Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 32 min | $71,202 |
| Fairfield Township | 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Plum Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| East Mead Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 21 min | $86,429 |
Same-state neighbors only. Canal Township, East Fairfield Township, Jackson Township and Plum Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Fairfield Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cochranton. Darker towns draw more of Wayne 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 Wayne Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wayne Township?
$75,000 (±$12,633) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wayne Township?
9.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wayne Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wayne Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Meadville (21%, 11 mi), Vernon Township (12%, 13 mi), Erie (5%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wayne Township walkable?
Wayne Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wayne Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wayne Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wayne 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.