Work & commute · Mount Penn

Work & commute in Mount Penn, PA

Most working residents leave Mount Penn for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Reading (15%), Wyomissing (6%) and Exeter (5%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 1,487 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,454 Mount Penn residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 421 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Penn.

1,454live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

421work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Penn goes to work

Reading2.1 mi away

15%225

Wyomissing4 mi away

6%87

Exeter3 mi away

5%81

Maxatawny15.6 mi away

5%76

Muhlenberg5 mi away

5%71

West Reading3 mi away

3%52

Spring7.7 mi away

3%47

Cumru5.2 mi away

2%36

Mount Penn (in town)right here

2%33

Upper Macungie21.7 mi away

2%31

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%748

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

How far

How far Mount Penn commutes

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

55%

21%

16%

55%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Penn is a commuter town

0.31jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Penn are

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

Jobs based in Mount Penn

454 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Mount Penn residents hold

1,487 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

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Jobs based in Mount Penn, 2013 → 2023: 452 → 454. 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.