Work & commute · Mount Joy

Work & commute in Mount Joy, PA

Most working residents leave Mount Joy for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Gettysburg (9%), Hanover (5%) and Cumberland (4%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

92 of 1,686 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,594 Mount Joy residents head out of town to work, 92 work right here, and 612 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Joy.

1,594live here, work elsewhere

92live and work here

612work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Joy goes to work

Gettysburg5.2 mi away

9%156

Mount Joy (in town)right here

5%92

Hanover10.9 mi away

5%76

Cumberland4.6 mi away

4%71

Straban7.9 mi away

4%69

Penn11.7 mi away

2%36

Littlestown5.2 mi away

2%35

Frederick, MD25.8 mi away

2%31

Taneytown, MD7.6 mi away

2%28

Oxford9.1 mi away

1%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

63%1,067

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

How far

How far Mount Joy commutes

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

35%

20%

27%

18%

35%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Joy is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.42 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Joy are

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

Jobs based in Mount Joy

704 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less32%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Mount Joy residents hold

1,686 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−23%

Jobs based in Mount Joy, 2013 → 2023: 909 → 704. 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.