Work & commute · Cooke

Work & commute in Cooke, PA

Most working residents leave Cooke for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Silver Spring (6%), South Middleton (6%) and Chambersburg (5%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 79 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 78 Cooke residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 14 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cooke.

78live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

14work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cooke goes to work

Silver Spring20.5 mi away

6%5

South Middleton10.8 mi away

6%5

Chambersburg19 mi away

5%4

Middlesex18.2 mi away

5%4

Shippensburg10.7 mi away

4%3

Media102.7 mi away

3%2

Carlisle13.1 mi away

3%2

Harrisburg28.5 mi away

3%2

Shippensburg10 mi away

3%2

Penn4.9 mi away

3%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

61%48

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

How far

How far Cooke commutes

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

10%

46%

15%

29%

10%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cooke is a commuter town

0.19jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cooke are

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

Jobs based in Cooke

15 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Cooke residents hold

79 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+15%

Jobs based in Cooke, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 15. 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.