Work & commute · Easttown

Work & commute in Easttown, PA

Most working residents leave Easttown for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (16%), Tredyffrin (10%) and Upper Merion (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

172 of 4,605 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

35%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,433 Easttown residents head out of town to work, 172 work right here, and 3,747 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Easttown.

4,433live here, work elsewhere

172live and work here

3,747work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Easttown goes to work

Philadelphia16.5 mi away

16%738

Tredyffrin2.9 mi away

10%477

Upper Merion5.5 mi away

6%291

Radnor3.8 mi away

5%252

Easttown (in town)right here

4%172

Lower Merion8.8 mi away

4%165

East Whiteland5.9 mi away

3%137

Newtown3 mi away

2%103

West Goshen8.7 mi away

2%87

Upper Providence10 mi away

2%80

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%2,103

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

How far

How far Easttown commutes

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

49%

35%

49%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Easttown is balanced between jobs and homes

0.85jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.85 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Easttown are

3,919 jobs are based in Easttown. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Easttown’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Easttown

3,919 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Easttown residents hold

4,605 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month76%

−6%

Jobs based in Easttown, 2013 → 2023: 4,154 → 3,919. 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.