Tunkhannock Township in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania offers many transportation options for its residents. Public transit is available through the Wyoming County Transit Authority (WCTA) which operates a bus system of routes throughout the county. The WCTA buses provide service to the boroughs of Tunkhannock, Nicholson, Factoryville, Noxen, Forkston and Mehoopany as well as rural communities in between. Additionally, there are several taxi services operating out of Tunkhannock that provide local and long-distance travel. The town is also conveniently located on Route 6 and has easy access to the interstate highway system. Therefore, commuting to larger cities such as Wilkes Barre/Scranton or Binghamton is easy and convenient. Residents have a wide variety of transportation options within their reach for commuting or traveling around the area.
The typical American commute has been getting longer each year since 2010. The average one-way commute in Tunkhannock township takes 26.5 minutes. That's longer than the US average of 26.4 minutes.
How people in Tunkhannock township get to work:
- 84.3% drive their own car alone
- 8.8% carpool with others
- 5.9% work from home
- 0.6% take mass transit