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Work & commute · Earl

Work & commute in Earl, PA

Most working residents leave Earl for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Pottstown (5%), Douglass (4%) and Limerick (4%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
14 of 1,557 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
28 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
9%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,543 Earl residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Earl.

1,543live here, work elsewhere
14live and work here
229work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Earl goes to work

BoyertownBirdsboroPottstownReadingPhiladelphiaDouglassOleyWashingtonAmityColebrookdalePikeEarlDouglassNew HanoverUpper MerionLimerickTredyffrinPottstownDouglassLimerickBoyertownDouglassAmityColebrookdalePhiladelphiaUpper MerionTredyffrinEarl
1
Pottstown7.5 mi away
5%75
2
Douglass4.4 mi away
4%56
3
Limerick11.9 mi away
4%55
4
Boyertown3.4 mi away
3%54
5
Douglass5.3 mi away
3%47
6
Amity4.9 mi away
3%39
7
Colebrookdale2.2 mi away
2%37
8
Philadelphia38 mi away
2%32
9
Upper Merion24.6 mi away
2%32
10
Tredyffrin23.5 mi away
2%32
Everywhere elseother towns and states
71%1,098

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

How far

How far Earl commutes

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

31%Under 10 mi
44%10–24 mi
16%25–50 mi
10%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Earl is a commuter town

0.16jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Earl are

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

Jobs based in Earl

243 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)37%
Trade, transport & utilities3%
Services (health, schools, offices…)60%
$1,250 a month or less19%
$1,251–$3,333 a month26%
Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Earl residents hold

1,557 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)24%
Trade, transport & utilities24%
Services (health, schools, offices…)52%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%
Over $3,333 a month65%
−27%

Jobs based in Earl, 2013 → 2023: 332 → 243. 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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