Work & commute · Banks

Work & commute in Banks, PA

Most working residents leave Banks for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Hazle (13%), Hazleton (9%) and West Hazleton (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 500 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 479 Banks residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 567 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Banks.

479live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

567work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Banks goes to work

Hazle5.3 mi away

13%66

Hazleton3.1 mi away

9%44

West Hazleton6.3 mi away

6%30

Banks (in town)right here

4%21

Weatherly5.3 mi away

3%15

Upper Macungie29.3 mi away

3%13

Rush6 mi away

2%12

East Union11.1 mi away

2%12

Philadelphia75.8 mi away

2%11

Butler8.1 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%265

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

How far

How far Banks commutes

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

48%

10%

19%

23%

48%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Banks is balanced between jobs and homes

1.18jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Banks are

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

Jobs based in Banks

588 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)74%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)18%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Banks residents hold

500 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+265%

Jobs based in Banks, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 588. 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.