Work & commute · Pleasant Hills

Work & commute in Pleasant Hills, PA

Most working residents leave Pleasant Hills for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Pittsburgh (31%), West Mifflin (6%) and Jefferson Hills (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

218 of 3,950 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,732 Pleasant Hills residents head out of town to work, 218 work right here, and 5,061 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Hills.

3,732live here, work elsewhere

218live and work here

5,061work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Hills goes to work

Pittsburgh7.6 mi away

31%1,208

West Mifflin3.4 mi away

6%232

Pleasant Hills (in town)right here

6%218

Jefferson Hills2.4 mi away

4%160

Bethel Park4.1 mi away

3%100

Robinson12.7 mi away

2%68

Whitehall2.6 mi away

2%66

Monroeville12.4 mi away

2%64

Brentwood3.1 mi away

1%55

South Park2.8 mi away

1%55

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%1,724

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

How far

How far Pleasant Hills commutes

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

67%

21%

67%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Hills is balanced between jobs and homes

1.34jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Hills are

5,279 jobs are based in Pleasant Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pleasant Hills

5,279 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Pleasant Hills residents hold

3,950 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+10%

Jobs based in Pleasant Hills, 2013 → 2023: 4,817 → 5,279. 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.