Work & commute · Falls

Work & commute in Falls, PA

Most working residents leave Falls for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (12%), Middletown (6%) and Bristol (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

1,611 of 16,695 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 15,084 Falls residents head out of town to work, 1,611 work right here, and 12,693 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Falls.

15,084live here, work elsewhere

1,611live and work here

12,693work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Falls goes to work

Philadelphia21.7 mi away

12%1,936

Falls (in town)right here

10%1,611

Middletown6.3 mi away

6%1,014

Bristol5.7 mi away

6%981

Bensalem9.7 mi away

5%781

Trenton, NJ3.3 mi away

4%595

Lower Makefield5.1 mi away

3%433

Newtown9.2 mi away

2%367

Hamilton, NJ6.2 mi away

2%320

Ewing, NJ5.8 mi away

2%279

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%8,378

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

How far

How far Falls commutes

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

46%

30%

15%

46%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Falls are

14,304 jobs are based in Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Falls

14,304 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Falls residents hold

16,695 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+10%

Jobs based in Falls, 2013 → 2023: 13,060 → 14,304. 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.