Photo: Frank Kovalchek · CC BY 2.0West St. Clair Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
398 jobs are based in West St. Clair Township; 722 of its residents have a job. West St. Clair Township grades C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, West St. Clair Township is behind 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in West St. Clair Township
The figures behind West St. Clair Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, West St. Clair Township is better than 18% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds West St. Clair Township’s grade up (11.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($53,370, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: West St. Clair 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, West St. Clair Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
Goods, not services: 75% of the jobs in West St. Clair Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in West St. Clair Township, 2013 → 2023: 296 → 398. 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 West St. Clair Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
West St. Clair Township by day and by night
On a workday 689 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 365 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in West St. Clair Township on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
18% of working residents work in Bedford Township
Where West St. Clair Township clocks in
18% of workers
8% 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.
Each way, about 26 minutes from West St. Clair Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of West St. Clair Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 607 commuters (the 7% 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.
West St. Clair Township’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Most of West St. Clair Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, West St. Clair Township is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 651 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). 3.0% of West St. Clair Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of West St. Clair Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, West St. Clair Township comes 4,452nd 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
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| 4,450 | Amboy Township MI | 1,176 | $61K | 10.7% | 0.8% | 2% | C− |
| 4,451 | Knox Township OH | 1,178 | $66K | 17.4% | 0.0% | <1% | C− |
| 4,452 | West St. Clair Township PA | 1,639 | $53K | 11.0% | 2.1% | 5% | C− |
| 4,453 | Zerbe Township PA | 1,769 | $58K | 17.4% | 5.3% | 3% | C− |
| 4,454 | Belcourt ND | 1,547 | $91K | 27.7% | 0.0% | 48% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 West St. Clair Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 11% of West St. Clair Township
The biggest share goes to East St. Clair Township (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | West St. Clair Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West St. Clair Township | – | C− | C− | 26 min | $53,370 |
| East St. Clair Township | 8% | C− | C+ | 24 min | $41,993 |
| Lincoln Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Ogle Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Napier Township | 3% | C+ | C | 29 min | $61,656 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lincoln Township and Ogle Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of West St. Clair 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 West St. Clair Township: questions
What is the median household income in West St. Clair Township?
$53,370 (±$7,490) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in West St. Clair Township?
11.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from West St. Clair Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in West St. Clair Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bedford Township (18%, 11 mi), East St. Clair Township (8%, 5 mi), Bedford (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is West St. Clair Township walkable?
West St. Clair Township is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around West St. Clair Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from West St. Clair Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of West St. Clair 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.