Work & commute · Mountville

Work & commute in Mountville, PA

Most working residents leave Mountville for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are East Hempfield (12%), Lancaster (11%) and West Hempfield (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 1,402 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,377 Mountville residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 463 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountville.

1,377live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

463work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountville goes to work

East Hempfield3.6 mi away

12%169

Lancaster6.8 mi away

11%154

West Hempfield2.4 mi away

7%98

Manheim7.7 mi away

7%95

East Lampeter11.4 mi away

3%39

Manor4.1 mi away

3%39

Derry19.5 mi away

2%33

York16.9 mi away

2%29

Philadelphia68.6 mi away

2%26

Mountville (in town)right here

2%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%695

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

How far

How far Mountville commutes

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

51%

25%

11%

13%

51%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountville is a commuter town

0.35jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountville are

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

Jobs based in Mountville

488 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Mountville residents hold

1,402 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−3%

Jobs based in Mountville, 2013 → 2023: 504 → 488. 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.