Most of Weatherly commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
There are 441 jobs in Weatherly; 1,081 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Weatherly is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (C+). Household incomes here are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Weatherly, in brief
The figures behind Weatherly’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Weatherly’s grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Weatherly could be anywhere from D− to B−.
The kinds of work in Weatherly
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weatherly, 2013 → 2023: 597 → 441. 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 Weatherly’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Weatherly by day
On a workday 987 residents head out to work, 94 work right here, and 347 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Weatherly on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
13% of working residents work in Hazle Township
Where Weatherly clocks in
7% 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.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Weatherly
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weatherly workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 855 commuters (the 9% 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 it is to work from Weatherly
About 23% 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.
The commute in Weatherly is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 937 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). 6.5% of Weatherly households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weatherly’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Weatherly is 4,197th among 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Thornbury Township PA | 3,165 | $172K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,195 | Steeleville IL | 1,883 | $60K | 22.5% | 3.7% | 22% | D |
| 4,196 | Dry Ridge KY | 2,249 | $56K | 21.9% | 6.9% | 8% | D |
| 4,197 | Weatherly PA | 2,546 | $52K | 22.2% | 7.3% | 9% | D |
| 4,198 | Everett Township MI | 1,994 | $57K | 14.1% | 10.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,199 | Weedpatch CA | 2,685 | $22K | 46.5% | 22.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Weatherly, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Weatherly
The biggest share goes to Lehigh Township (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Weatherly workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weatherly | – | D | C+ | 29 min | $52,125 |
| Lehigh Township | 1% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Lausanne Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lehigh Township and Lausanne Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Weatherly’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 Weatherly: questions
What is the median household income in Weatherly?
$52,125 (±$22,531) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weatherly?
22.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weatherly?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weatherly work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (13%, 10 mi), Hazleton (7%, 8 mi), West Hazleton (7%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Weatherly walkable?
Weatherly is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weatherly without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weatherly, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weatherly
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.