Ellen and Charles F. Welles House · Photo: Smallbones · CC0There are 3.4 jobs in Wyalusing Township for every working resident, and 1,699 people commute in
About one in five work in Wyalusing Township itself; outside it, Mehoopany Township draws the most (8%, 13 miles). There are 1,799 jobs in Wyalusing Township, and 527 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Wyalusing Township C+; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Wyalusing Township: the gist
Wyalusing Township fills up on a workday
Wyalusing Township has 1,799 jobs, 3.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,500 people are in town, more than double the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Wyalusing Township makes and builds things
68% of the jobs based in Wyalusing Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Wyalusing Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Wyalusing Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
79% of the jobs based in Wyalusing Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 63% of the jobs Wyalusing Township residents hold. 94% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Wyalusing Township. The jobs ↓
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 527 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Wyalusing Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Wyalusing Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Wyalusing Township’s grade up ($90,197, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Wyalusing 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, Wyalusing Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
Who works in Wyalusing Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 427 residents head out to work and 100 work right here.
About 2,500 people are in Wyalusing Township on a workday afternoon, 104% more than live here.
3.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Wyalusing Township makes things: 68% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wyalusing Township, 2014 → 2024: 298 → 1,799. 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 Wyalusing Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Wyalusing Township: where workers come from
Where Wyalusing 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.
How long Wyalusing Township spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wyalusing Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 515 commuters (the 10% 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 Wyalusing Township goes to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: Wyalusing Township
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wyalusing Township is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 572 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). 2.2% of Wyalusing Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wyalusing Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wyalusing Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 2,195th of 4,866 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,193 | Fraser CO | 1,543 | $90K | 9.4% | 4.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,194 | Brookfield Township IL | 1,060 | $84K | 12.3% | 21.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,195 | Wyalusing Township PA | 1,226 | $90K | 9.7% | 3.9% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,196 | Algonquin MD | 1,074 | $77K | 10.7% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,197 | Latta OK | 1,405 | $76K | 10.9% | 3.1% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Wyalusing Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Wyalusing Township
The biggest share goes to Wyalusing (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wyalusing Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyalusing Township | – | C+ | A | 25 min | $90,197 |
| Wyalusing | 6% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Wilmot Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 22 min | $85,000 |
| Terry Township | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Asylum Township | under 2% | C+ | D− | 24 min | $73,382 |
| Tuscarora Township | under 2% | B | C | 26 min | $95,313 |
| Herrick Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Standing Stone Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Wyalusing, Terry Township, Herrick Township and Standing Stone Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wyalusing 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 Wyalusing Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wyalusing Township?
$90,197 (±$14,870) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wyalusing Township?
9.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wyalusing Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wyalusing Township work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mehoopany Township (8%, 13 mi), Wyalusing (6%, 1 mi), Wysox Township (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wyalusing Township walkable?
Wyalusing Township is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wyalusing Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wyalusing Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wyalusing 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.