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Work & commute · Dreher

Work & commute in Dreher, PA

Most working residents leave Dreher for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Scranton (8%), Salem (4%) and New York (4%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
14 of 591 working residents
Typical commute
20 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
25 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
23%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 577 Dreher residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 294 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dreher.

577live here, work elsewhere
14live and work here
294work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Dreher goes to work

New YorkHonesdaleDunmoreScrantonGreeneBarrettLakePoconoDreherSalemLehighPalmyraLackawaxenSterlingCoolbaughScrantonSalemNew YorkHonesdaleBarrettPalmyraSterlingPoconoDunmoreDreher
1
Scranton17.5 mi away
8%45
2
Salem6.9 mi away
4%24
3
New York, NY86.1 mi away
4%21
4
Honesdale20 mi away
4%21
5
Barrett8.9 mi away
4%21
6
Palmyra10 mi away
3%17
7
Sterling3.1 mi away
3%17
8
Pocono17.1 mi away
3%16
9
Dreher (in town)right here
2%14
10
Dunmore14.8 mi away
2%12
Everywhere elseother towns and states
65%383

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

How far

How far Dreher commutes

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

16%Under 10 mi
43%10–24 mi
14%25–50 mi
27%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Dreher is a commuter town

0.52jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Dreher are

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

Jobs based in Dreher

308 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)13%
Trade, transport & utilities7%
Services (health, schools, offices…)80%
$1,250 a month or less21%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Dreher residents hold

591 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)18%
Trade, transport & utilities23%
Services (health, schools, offices…)59%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month58%
+8%

Jobs based in Dreher, 2013 → 2023: 285 → 308. 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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