Photo: Dougtone · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Wilmot Township works elsewhere
For 7% of workers, the job is at home; Pennsylvania has 16%. Employers in Wilmot Township report 37 jobs; 468 of its residents have a job. Wilmot Township grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wilmot Township: the figures worth knowing
Wilmot Township is a place people come home to
There are 37 jobs based in Wilmot Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wilmot Township has about 700 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The quickest commute around
Wilmot Township’s 22-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 25 to 39 minutes. Next door ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 468 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Wilmot Township
On income, poverty and job access, Wilmot Township is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Wilmot Township’s grade up ($85,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (7.6%) is left out: Wilmot 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, Wilmot Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
In and out of Wilmot Township on a workday
On a workday 466 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 700 people are in Wilmot Township on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Wyalusing Township
Where Wilmot Township clocks in
Lines 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.
Wilmot Township works in goods: 41% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilmot Township, 2014 → 2024: 56 → 37. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wilmot Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Wilmot Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilmot Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 326 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.
Where in the region Wilmot Township works
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Wilmot Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wilmot Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% 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 350 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.5% of Wilmot Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Wilmot Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wilmot Township is 1,865th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,863 | Panora IA | 1,094 | $66K | 9.3% | 6.3% | 16% | C+ |
| 1,864 | Frankston TX | 1,133 | $57K | 9.5% | 4.2% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,865 | Wilmot Township PA | 1,135 | $85K | 9.4% | 7.6% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,866 | Main Township PA | 1,290 | $71K | 13.8% | 8.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,867 | Solomon KS | 1,007 | $51K | 5.9% | 2.6% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Wilmot Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 15% of Wilmot Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Wyalusing Township (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wilmot Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmot Township | – | C+ | C | 22 min | $85,000 |
| Wyalusing Township | 12% | C+ | A | 25 min | $90,197 |
| Tuscarora Township | under 3% | B | C | 26 min | $95,313 |
| Terry Township | under 3% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Albany Township | 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Colley Township | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Terry Township, Albany Township and Colley Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wilmot 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 2024, 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 Wilmot Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wilmot Township?
$85,000 (±$13,213) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilmot Township?
9.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilmot Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilmot Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wyalusing Township (12%, 7 mi), Wysox Township (7%, 16 mi), Towanda (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wilmot Township walkable?
Wilmot Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wilmot Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilmot Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilmot Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.