Work & commute · Dallas

Work & commute in Dallas, PA

Most working residents leave Dallas for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Wilkes-Barre (14%), Dallas (7%) and Plains (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

45 of 1,201 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,156 Dallas residents head out of town to work, 45 work right here, and 900 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dallas.

1,156live here, work elsewhere

45live and work here

900work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dallas goes to work

Wilkes-Barre7.7 mi away

14%167

Dallas1.7 mi away

7%85

Plains9.5 mi away

7%81

Scranton16.7 mi away

6%77

Kingston6.4 mi away

4%50

Dallas (in town)right here

4%45

Hanover9.2 mi away

4%44

Kingston3.6 mi away

3%35

Philadelphia101.4 mi away

2%24

Moosic14.4 mi away

2%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%573

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

How far

How far Dallas commutes

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

54%

22%

18%

54%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dallas is balanced between jobs and homes

0.79jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Dallas are

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

Jobs based in Dallas

945 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less33%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month29%

Jobs Dallas residents hold

1,201 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month64%

−47%

Jobs based in Dallas, 2013 → 2023: 1,777 → 945. 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.