Work & commute · Alburtis

Work & commute in Alburtis, PA

Most working residents leave Alburtis for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Upper Macungie (10%), Lower Macungie (10%) and Allentown (9%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 1,211 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,204 Alburtis residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 295 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Alburtis.

1,204live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

295work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Alburtis goes to work

Upper Macungie4.5 mi away

10%124

Lower Macungie2.5 mi away

10%116

Allentown8.8 mi away

9%109

Salisbury10.9 mi away

7%79

Bethlehem14.7 mi away

5%59

South Whitehall8.3 mi away

5%58

Philadelphia42.3 mi away

3%38

Emmaus5.7 mi away

3%36

Upper Saucon10.4 mi away

2%25

Whitehall11.6 mi away

2%24

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%543

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Alburtis commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

50%

26%

15%

50%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Alburtis is a commuter town

0.25jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.25 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Alburtis are

302 jobs are based in Alburtis. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Alburtis’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Alburtis

302 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less32%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Alburtis residents hold

1,211 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+60%

Jobs based in Alburtis, 2013 → 2023: 189 → 302. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.