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Work & commute · Bally

Work & commute in Bally, PA

Most working residents leave Bally for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Boyertown (4%), Allentown (3%) and Washington (3%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
4%
23 of 617 working residents
Typical commute
15 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
27 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
9%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 594 Bally residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 813 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bally.

594live here, work elsewhere
23live and work here
813work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Bally goes to work

BechtelsvilleBallyBoyertownPottstownAllentownDouglassUpper HanoverWashingtonColebrookdalePikeHerefordNew HanoverUpper MerionLimerickBoyertownAllentownWashingtonColebrookdaleDouglassUpper HanoverLimerickPottstownUpper MerionBally
1
Boyertown5.4 mi away
4%25
2
Bally (in town)right here
4%23
3
Allentown14.5 mi away
3%21
4
Washington1.1 mi away
3%21
5
Colebrookdale5.2 mi away
3%20
6
Douglass4 mi away
3%18
7
Upper Hanover4.1 mi away
3%18
8
Limerick11.9 mi away
3%18
9
Pottstown10.8 mi away
3%17
10
Upper Merion24.1 mi away
2%11
Everywhere elseother towns and states
69%425

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

How far

How far Bally commutes

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

30%Under 10 mi
48%10–24 mi
12%25–50 mi
10%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Bally is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Bally are

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

Jobs based in Bally

836 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)55%
Trade, transport & utilities30%
Services (health, schools, offices…)15%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month34%
Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Bally residents hold

617 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)27%
Trade, transport & utilities18%
Services (health, schools, offices…)54%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%
Over $3,333 a month65%
−7%

Jobs based in Bally, 2013 → 2023: 901 → 836. 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.

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