98% of Merion Station’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Merion Station for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (43%), Lower Merion (12%) and Upper Merion (3%). Half commute less than 6 miles.
What kind of work town is Merion Station?
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About 27 minutes each way, about the PA average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Merion Station workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
43% of working residents work in Philadelphia
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Merion Station clocks in
43% of workers
12% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
1,202 jobs are based in Merion Station. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Merion Station’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Merion Station, 2013 → 2023: 692 → 1,202. 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.
Half of Merion Station commutes less than 6 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.
Merion Station quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,256 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 1,158 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,700 people are in Merion Station on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.52 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Merion Station and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Narberth (1%). Darker towns draw more of Merion Station’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 Merion Station
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Merion Station, from the people who make the trip.
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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.