Ernest Thralls House · Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Wayne Township works elsewhere
36 jobs are based in Wayne Township for 488 working residents. Wayne Township grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. 6% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wayne Township: the figures worth knowing
Wayne Township is a place people come home to
There are 36 jobs based in Wayne Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wayne Township has about 560 people in it, 45% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Wayne Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 488 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Wayne Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Wayne Township is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wayne Township’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (9.8%) 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.
Wayne Township by day and by night
On a workday 487 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Wayne Township on a workday afternoon, 45% 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.
About 35 minutes each way for Wayne Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 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 365 commuters (the 6% 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.
11% of working residents work in Morgantown
Where Wayne Township clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
Goods jobs make up 53% of work in Wayne Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wayne Township, 2013 → 2023: 268 → 36. 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.
The commute from Wayne Township, by distance
About 22% 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.
For most of Wayne Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wayne Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 387 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). 1.5% of Wayne Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Wayne Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wayne Township is 1,438th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,436 | Ellicottville NY | 1,298 | $71K | 6.9% | 7.5% | 24% | C+ |
| 1,437 | Tuscarora Township PA | 1,349 | $84K | 8.4% | 4.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,438 | Wayne Township PA | 1,009 | $79K | 7.2% | 9.8% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,439 | Buffalo IA | 1,146 | $70K | 18.8% | 2.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,440 | Clear Lake SD | 1,220 | $85K | 9.8% | 3.8% | 28% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Wayne Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 15% of Wayne Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Franklin Township (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wayne Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Township | – | C+ | D | 35 min | $79,375 |
| Perry Township | 4% | C | D | 35 min | $69,609 |
| Whiteley Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Franklin Township | 9% | C+ | B− | 26 min | $68,482 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | — | — | 56 min | — |
| Gilmore Township | under 2% | — | — | 41 min | — |
| Center Township | 2% | C− | B− | 27 min | $67,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Whiteley Township, Jackson Township and Gilmore Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$79,375 (±$18,220) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wayne Township?
7.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wayne Township?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wayne Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morgantown (11%, 18 mi), Franklin Township (9%, 8 mi), Pittsburgh (4%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wayne Township walkable?
Wayne Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wayne Township without a car?
2% 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.