A job hub: Young Township has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 1,205 people come in to work
1,267 jobs are based in Young Township, against 675 working residents. Jobs and income earn Young Township C+; getting around on foot earns it C+. For 4% of workers, the job is at home (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Young Township
Young Township is where the jobs are
Young Township has 1,267 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Young Township and Punxsutawney trade workers both ways
Punxsutawney is the top workplace for Young Township residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Young Township come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Young Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Young Township fell from 1,830 in 2014 to 1,267 in 2024, −31%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 675 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Young Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Young Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Young Township’s grade up (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($60,795, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.8%) is left out: Young 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, Young Township could be anywhere from C to B−.
Who leaves Young Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 613 residents head out to work and 62 work right here.
About 2,300 people are in Young Township on a workday afternoon, 35% more 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.
The towns that send workers to Young Township
Where Young Township clocks in
23% of workers
7% of workers
3% 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.
What Young Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Young Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,830 → 1,267. 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 Young Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Young Township: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Young Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 609 commuters (the 4% 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.
Half of Young Township commutes less than 17 miles
About 24% 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.
Few in Young Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Young Township is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 635 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). 5.7% of Young Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Young Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Young Township ranks 2,777th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 37 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,775 | Washington Township IN | 1,864 | $75K | 12.8% | 8.3% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,776 | Deering NH | 1,933 | $101K | 14.3% | 4.9% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,777 | Young Township PA | 1,670 | $61K | 5.9% | 6.8% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,778 | New Buffalo MI | 1,685 | $65K | 12.7% | 1.5% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,779 | Porter Township PA | 1,539 | $74K | 13.0% | 5.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Young Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 24% of Young Township
The biggest share goes to Punxsutawney (23%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Young Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Township | – | C+ | C+ | 20 min | $60,795 |
| Punxsutawney | 23% | C− | A | 25 min | $42,183 |
| Bell Township | 1% | D | C− | 27 min | $56,731 |
| Perry Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 28 min | $72,426 |
| McCalmont Township | under 2% | C− | C+ | 25 min | $67,375 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Young 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 Young Township: questions
What is the median household income in Young Township?
$60,795 (±$4,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Young Township?
5.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Young Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Young Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Punxsutawney (23%, 2 mi), DuBois (7%, 17 mi), Brookville (3%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Young Township walkable?
Young Township is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Young Township 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 Young Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Young 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.