Work & commute · East St. Clair

Work & commute in East St. Clair, PA

Most working residents leave East St. Clair for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Bedford (19%), Bedford (6%) and West St. Clair (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

94 of 1,217 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,123 East St. Clair residents head out of town to work, 94 work right here, and 487 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East St. Clair.

1,123live here, work elsewhere

94live and work here

487work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East St. Clair goes to work

Bedford5.8 mi away

19%229

East St. Clair (in town)right here

8%94

Bedford8.4 mi away

6%68

West St. Clair5.4 mi away

5%60

Greenfield13 mi away

4%46

Altoona27.5 mi away

3%36

Richland18.6 mi away

2%29

Allegheny22.8 mi away

2%25

Snake Spring9.7 mi away

2%22

West Providence14.6 mi away

2%22

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%586

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

How far

How far East St. Clair commutes

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

41%

24%

13%

23%

41%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East St. Clair is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in East St. Clair are

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

Jobs based in East St. Clair

581 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs East St. Clair residents hold

1,217 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+14%

Jobs based in East St. Clair, 2013 → 2023: 510 → 581. 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.