Work & commute · East Berlin

Work & commute in East Berlin, PA

Most working residents leave East Berlin for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Hanover (6%), Penn (6%) and West Manchester (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

31 of 764 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 733 East Berlin residents head out of town to work, 31 work right here, and 553 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Berlin.

733live here, work elsewhere

31live and work here

553work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Berlin goes to work

Hanover8.6 mi away

6%48

Penn9.5 mi away

6%46

West Manchester9.9 mi away

5%37

East Berlin (in town)right here

4%31

York13.3 mi away

3%26

Lower Allen19 mi away

2%17

New Oxford6.5 mi away

2%15

Huntington9.6 mi away

2%14

Spring Grove7.2 mi away

2%13

Jackson5.9 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

66%504

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

How far

How far East Berlin commutes

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

34%

39%

11%

16%

34%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Berlin is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in East Berlin are

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

Jobs based in East Berlin

584 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)41%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs East Berlin residents hold

764 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

−18%

Jobs based in East Berlin, 2013 → 2023: 715 → 584. 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.