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Work & commute in Enhaut · A commuter town

100% of Enhaut’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Enhaut for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Harrisburg (14%), Swatara (11%) and Derry (8%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 425 working residents
Typical commute
6 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
19 min
Less than PA (26 min)
Work from home
15%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
13
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Enhaut?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

14% of working residents work in Harrisburg

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Steelton: 6 residents work here (1%)BerwickHarrisburg: 61 residents work here (14%)Silver SpringSt. ThomasLondonderryLower Swatara: 24 residents work here (6%)Susquehanna: 19 residents work here (4%)Lower Paxton: 30 residents work here (7%)North HopewellYorkDerry: 32 residents work here (8%)Swatara: 47 residents work here (11%)RayneLower Allen: 20 residents work here (5%)East Pennsboro: 8 residents work here (2%)Hampden: 18 residents work here (4%)OberlinEnhautBresslerHarrisburgSwataraDerryLower PaxtonLower SwataraLower AllenEnhaut
1
Harrisburg4.3 mi away
14%61
2
Swatara1.4 mi away
11%47
3
Derry9.4 mi away
8%32
4
Lower Paxton6 mi away
7%30
5
Lower Swatara3.7 mi away
6%24
6
Lower Allen5.6 mi away
5%20
7
Susquehanna6.2 mi away
4%19
8
Hampden8.4 mi away
4%18
9
East Pennsboro6.9 mi away
2%8
10
Steelton0.5 mi away
1%6
Everywhere elseother towns and states
38%160
The top trips

Where Enhaut clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
145 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Enhaut19 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
15%

of Enhaut workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How far

Half of Enhaut commutes less than 6 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi30 miHarrisburg: 14% · 4.3 miSwatara: 11% · 1.4 miDerry: 8% · 9.4 miLower Paxton: 7% · 6 miLower Swatara: 6% · 3.7 miLower Allen: 5% · 5.6 miSusquehanna: 4% · 6.2 miHampden: 4% · 8.4 miEast Pennsboro: 2% · 6.9 miSteelton: 1% · 0.5 miHarrisburg 14%Swatara 11%Derry 8%Lower Paxton 7%Lower Swatara 6%Enhaut
EnhautTop destinations (size = commuters)
67%Under 10 mi285 residents
11%10–24 mi46 residents
7%25–50 mi31 residents
15%Over 50 mi62 residents

About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

Day and night

Enhaut quiets down on a workday

On a workday 425 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.

425live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
13work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,200
Workday790
1,200live here− 430head out to work+ 13come in to work= 790on a workday

About 790 people are in Enhaut on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.03jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The jobs

Enhaut makes things: 38% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in EnhautJobs Enhaut residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms38%13%
Trade, transport & utilities0%24%
Services: health, schools, offices62%63%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less0%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month15%26%
Over $3,333 a month85%58%

Who does it

29 or younger8%24%
30 to 5469%51%
55 and older23%25%
−68%

Jobs based in Enhaut, 2013 → 2023: 41 → 13. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Next door

12% of Enhaut works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Swatara (11%). Darker towns draw more of Enhaut’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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