Williamsburg Historic District · Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Williamsburg are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Williamsburg is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (A). Below the poverty line: 13.9% of residents; Pennsylvania has 11.7%. 6% of workers work from home, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Williamsburg apart on work
The four measures behind Williamsburg’s grade
Job access by car holds Williamsburg’s grade up (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($50,952, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Williamsburg’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, Williamsburg could be anywhere from D to C+.
Goods, not services: 65% of the jobs in Williamsburg
463 jobs are based in Williamsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Williamsburg, 2013 → 2023: 199 → 463. 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 Williamsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Williamsburg for work, and who comes in
On a workday 456 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 395 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.88 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.
12% of working residents work in Altoona
Where Williamsburg clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
From Williamsburg, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Williamsburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 462 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.
How many miles Williamsburg commutes
About 19% 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.
Williamsburg is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 493 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). 7.6% of Williamsburg households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Williamsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Williamsburg is 3,165th among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,163 | Rock River Township MI | 1,230 | $63K | 10.8% | 5.4% | 6% | C− |
| 3,164 | Mount Carroll IL | 1,432 | $59K | 14.1% | 3.2% | 14% | C− |
| 3,165 | Williamsburg PA | 1,196 | $51K | 13.9% | 4.3% | 13% | C− |
| 3,166 | Loretto PA | 1,135 | $64K | 36.4% | 8.4% | 4% | C− |
| 3,167 | Leonidas Township MI | 1,158 | $71K | 23.0% | 3.5% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Williamsburg, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 10% of Williamsburg’s workers
The biggest share goes to Woodbury Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Williamsburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williamsburg | – | C− | A | 27 min | $50,952 |
| Woodbury Township | 5% | C+ | B− | 29 min | $76,845 |
| Catharine Township | 5% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Robeson Extension | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Catharine Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Robeson Extension: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Williamsburg’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 Williamsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Williamsburg?
$50,952 (±$10,162) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Williamsburg?
13.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Williamsburg?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Williamsburg work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altoona (12%, 11 mi), Catharine Township (5%, 4 mi), Woodbury Township (5%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Williamsburg walkable?
Williamsburg is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Williamsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Williamsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Williamsburg
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.