Work & commute · Kidder

Work & commute in Kidder, PA

Most working residents leave Kidder for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Tobyhanna (5%), Philadelphia (3%) and Allentown (3%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
9%
50 of 559 working residents
Typical commute
27 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
34 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
7%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 509 Kidder residents head out of town to work, 50 work right here, and 689 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Kidder.

509live here, work elsewhere
50live and work here
689work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Kidder goes to work

New YorkWhite HavenEast SideWest HazletonAllentownJim ThorpePhiladelphiaTobyhannaDennisonBuckFosterChestnuthillPolkPenn ForestPoconoHazleKidderBear CreekLehighTunkhannockCoolbaughTobyhannaPhiladelphiaAllentownHazlePoconoCoolbaughNew YorkPenn ForestWest HazletonKidder
1
Kidder (in town)right here
9%50
2
Tobyhanna7.6 mi away
5%29
3
Philadelphia77.2 mi away
3%18
4
Allentown33.2 mi away
3%15
5
Hazle20.4 mi away
3%15
6
Pocono17.5 mi away
3%14
7
Coolbaugh13.6 mi away
2%13
8
New York, NY93.2 mi away
2%11
9
Penn Forest7 mi away
2%11
10
West Hazleton20.6 mi away
2%10
Everywhere elseother towns and states
67%373

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

How far

How far Kidder commutes

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

19%Under 10 mi
30%10–24 mi
20%25–50 mi
31%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Kidder is balanced between jobs and homes

1.32jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Kidder are

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

Jobs based in Kidder

739 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)1%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)83%
$1,250 a month or less34%
$1,251–$3,333 a month39%
Over $3,333 a month27%

Jobs Kidder residents hold

559 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)15%
Trade, transport & utilities26%
Services (health, schools, offices…)59%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month27%
Over $3,333 a month58%
+9%

Jobs based in Kidder, 2013 → 2023: 677 → 739. 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.

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