Work & commute · Peters

Work & commute in Peters, PA

Most working residents leave Peters for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Mercersburg (10%), Chambersburg (10%) and Antrim (7%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
9%
175 of 1,995 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
30 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
24%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,820 Peters residents head out of town to work, 175 work right here, and 748 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Peters.

1,820live here, work elsewhere
175live and work here
748work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Peters goes to work

HagerstownMercersburgGreencastleChambersburgGuilfordMontgomerySt. ThomasWashingtonToddAyrMetalWarrenHamiltonAntrimPetersGreeneMercersburgChambersburgAntrimHagerstownGreencastleGuilfordGreeneAyrMontgomeryPeters
1
Mercersburg3.2 mi away
10%203
2
Chambersburg13 mi away
10%192
3
Peters (in town)right here
9%175
4
Antrim11.6 mi away
7%136
5
Hagerstown, MD18.8 mi away
4%76
6
Greencastle10.6 mi away
4%75
7
Guilford15.3 mi away
4%74
8
Greene18 mi away
4%73
9
Ayr7.7 mi away
3%51
10
Montgomery7.2 mi away
2%39
Everywhere elseother towns and states
45%901

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

How far

How far Peters commutes

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

32%Under 10 mi
38%10–24 mi
6%25–50 mi
24%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Peters is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Peters are

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

Jobs based in Peters

923 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)53%
Trade, transport & utilities13%
Services (health, schools, offices…)35%
$1,250 a month or less21%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Peters residents hold

1,995 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)28%
Trade, transport & utilities22%
Services (health, schools, offices…)49%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month23%
Over $3,333 a month62%
+19%

Jobs based in Peters, 2013 → 2023: 776 → 923. 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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