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Work & commute in Quentin · A commuter town

99% of Quentin’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Quentin for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Derry (11%), Lebanon (5%) and South Lebanon (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Work in town
1%
3 of 304 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
23 min
Less than PA (26 min)
Work from home
9%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
168
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Quentin?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

11% of working residents work in Derry

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Manheim: 5 residents work here (2%)PalmyraElizabethtownLebanon: 14 residents work here (5%)Lancaster: 10 residents work here (3%)Harrisburg: 9 residents work here (3%)CornwallLower PaxtonWest Cornwall: 10 residents work here (3%)East Hempfield: 10 residents work here (3%)Derry: 34 residents work here (11%)Mount JoySouth Lebanon: 12 residents work here (4%)North Cornwall: 12 residents work here (4%)Manheim: 11 residents work here (4%)QuentinDerryLebanonSouth LebanonNorth CornwallManheimLancasterQuentin
1
Derry11.5 mi away
11%34
2
Lebanon4.1 mi away
5%14
3
South Lebanon3.6 mi away
4%12
4
North Cornwall2.2 mi away
4%12
5
Manheim15.2 mi away
4%11
6
Lancaster18.1 mi away
3%10
7
West Cornwall1.2 mi away
3%10
8
East Hempfield14.1 mi away
3%10
9
Harrisburg23.7 mi away
3%9
10
Manheim8.5 mi away
2%5
Everywhere elseother towns and states
58%177
The top trips

Where Quentin clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Quentin quiets down on a workday

On a workday 301 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 165 people come in from elsewhere.

301live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
165work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night720
Workday580
720live here− 300head out to work+ 170come in to work= 580on a workday

About 580 people are in Quentin on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.55jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Quentin commutes less than 14 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi30 miDerry: 11% · 11.5 miLebanon: 5% · 4.1 miSouth Lebanon: 4% · 3.6 miNorth Cornwall: 4% · 2.2 miManheim: 4% · 15.2 miLancaster: 3% · 18.1 miWest Cornwall: 3% · 1.2 miEast Hempfield: 3% · 14.1 miHarrisburg: 3% · 23.7 miManheim: 2% · 8.5 miDerry 11%Lebanon 5%South Lebanon 4%North Cornwall 4%Manheim 4%Quentin
QuentinTop destinations (size = commuters)
29%Under 10 mi87 residents
51%10–24 mi154 residents
8%25–50 mi25 residents
13%Over 50 mi38 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

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

Jobs based in QuentinJobs Quentin residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms2%18%
Trade, transport & utilities11%20%
Services: health, schools, offices87%62%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less38%16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%18%
Over $3,333 a month34%65%

Who does it

29 or younger35%17%
30 to 5442%48%
55 and older23%35%
+8%

Jobs based in Quentin, 2013 → 2023: 155 → 168. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
173 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Quentin23 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
9%

of Quentin workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Next door

Quentin and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to West Cornwall (3%). Darker towns draw more of Quentin’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Quentin23 min
West Cornwall24 min
Cornwall26 min
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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