Work & commute · Carroll

Work & commute in Carroll, PA

Most working residents leave Carroll for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Harrisburg (8%), Lower Allen (5%) and Upper Allen (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

191 of 3,295 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,104 Carroll residents head out of town to work, 191 work right here, and 2,256 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Carroll.

3,104live here, work elsewhere

191live and work here

2,256work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Carroll goes to work

Harrisburg13.5 mi away

8%270

Carroll (in town)right here

6%191

Lower Allen8.4 mi away

5%168

Upper Allen5.2 mi away

5%160

Hampden10.5 mi away

5%154

Silver Spring9.8 mi away

3%115

East Pennsboro12.8 mi away

3%110

Susquehanna16.3 mi away

3%89

Carlisle11.5 mi away

3%85

Lower Paxton18.4 mi away

2%80

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%1,873

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

How far

How far Carroll commutes

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

33%

45%

15%

33%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Carroll is a commuter town

0.74jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Carroll are

2,447 jobs are based in Carroll. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Carroll’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Carroll

2,447 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Carroll residents hold

3,295 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+6%

Jobs based in Carroll, 2013 → 2023: 2,315 → 2,447. 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.