Work & commute · Forest Hills

Work & commute in Forest Hills, PA

Most working residents leave Forest Hills for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Pittsburgh (43%), Monroeville (5%) and West Mifflin (2%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

56 of 2,934 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,878 Forest Hills residents head out of town to work, 56 work right here, and 2,151 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Forest Hills.

2,878live here, work elsewhere

56live and work here

2,151work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Forest Hills goes to work

Pittsburgh6.4 mi away

43%1,261

Monroeville4.9 mi away

5%147

Forest Hills (in town)right here

2%56

West Mifflin5.4 mi away

2%51

O'Hara5.1 mi away

2%49

Ross11.3 mi away

2%46

Wilkinsburg1.7 mi away

1%44

Plum7.7 mi away

1%38

Homestead3.2 mi away

1%31

McCandless14 mi away

1%30

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%1,181

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

How far

How far Forest Hills commutes

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

71%

18%

71%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Forest Hills is balanced between jobs and homes

0.75jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Forest Hills are

2,207 jobs are based in Forest Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Forest Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Forest Hills

2,207 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Forest Hills residents hold

2,934 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month68%

−1%

Jobs based in Forest Hills, 2013 → 2023: 2,230 → 2,207. 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.