98% of Frisco’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Frisco for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Cranberry Township (6%), North Sewickley Township (5%) and Pittsburgh (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.
Work and commuting in Frisco, in brief
Frisco makes and builds things
80% of the jobs based in Frisco are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Frisco residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Frisco pay better than its residents’ jobs
79% of the jobs based in Frisco pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 62% of the jobs Frisco residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Frisco. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 375 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Frisco makes things: 80% of its jobs are in goods
374 jobs are based in Frisco. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Frisco’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frisco, 2013 → 2023: 152 → 374. 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 369 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 368 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
6% of working residents work in Cranberry Township
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Frisco clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Frisco commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frisco workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
10% of Frisco works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to North Sewickley Township (5%). Darker towns draw more of Frisco’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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.
More of Frisco
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frisco, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.