Work & commute · Forks

Work & commute in Forks, PA

Most working residents leave Forks for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Bethlehem (7%), Easton (6%) and Allentown (5%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

500 of 6,875 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,375 Forks residents head out of town to work, 500 work right here, and 5,632 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Forks.

6,375live here, work elsewhere

500live and work here

5,632work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Forks goes to work

Forks (in town)right here

7%500

Bethlehem10.6 mi away

7%461

Easton3.4 mi away

6%398

Allentown16.4 mi away

5%377

Palmer3 mi away

5%356

Bethlehem6.7 mi away

3%231

Philadelphia50.4 mi away

3%191

Fountain Hill12.8 mi away

3%190

Lower Nazareth5.4 mi away

2%152

Hanover10.1 mi away

2%141

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%3,878

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

How far

How far Forks commutes

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

35%

32%

15%

17%

35%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Forks is balanced between jobs and homes

0.89jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Forks are

6,132 jobs are based in Forks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Forks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Forks

6,132 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)51%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)32%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Forks residents hold

6,875 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

−14%

Jobs based in Forks, 2013 → 2023: 7,112 → 6,132. 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.