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

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

Mercersburg3.2 mi away

10%203

Chambersburg13 mi away

10%192

Peters (in town)right here

9%175

Antrim11.6 mi away

7%136

Hagerstown, MD18.8 mi away

4%76

Greencastle10.6 mi away

4%75

Guilford15.3 mi away

4%74

Greene18 mi away

4%73

Ayr7.7 mi away

3%51

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%

38%

24%

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.