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Work & commute in Riddlesburg · A commuter town

100% of Riddlesburg’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Riddlesburg for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Bedford (8%), West Providence (8%) and East Providence (8%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 37 working residents
Typical commute
21 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
31 min
More than PA (26 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
0
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Riddlesburg?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

8% of working residents work in Bedford

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

Cumberland: 1 residents work here (3%)Hagerstown: 1 residents work here (3%)Duncansville: 1 residents work here (3%)Marcus Hook: 1 residents work here (3%)Somerset: 2 residents work here (5%)Bedford: 3 residents work here (8%)Allegheny: 2 residents work here (5%)Broad TopLiberty: 2 residents work here (5%)West Providence: 3 residents work here (8%)East Providence: 3 residents work here (8%)RiddlesburgBedfordWest ProvidenceEast ProvidenceSomersetAlleghenyLibertyRiddlesburg
1
Bedford15 mi away
8%3
2
West Providence12.7 mi away
8%3
3
East Providence10.7 mi away
8%3
4
Somerset43.7 mi away
5%2
5
Allegheny23.5 mi away
5%2
6
Liberty3.9 mi away
5%2
7
Cumberland, MD44 mi away
3%1
8
Hagerstown, MD45.5 mi away
3%1
9
Duncansville20.8 mi away
3%1
10
Marcus Hook152 mi away
3%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
49%18
The top trips

Where Riddlesburg clocks in

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

Day and night

Riddlesburg quiets down on a workday

On a workday 37 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.

37live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
0work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night150
Workday120
150live here− 37head out to work+ 0come in to work= 120on a workday

About 120 people are in Riddlesburg on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.00jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.00 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 Riddlesburg commutes less than 21 miles

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

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miBedford: 8% · 15 miWest Providence: 8% · 12.7 miEast Providence: 8% · 10.7 miSomerset: 5% · 43.7 miAllegheny: 5% · 23.5 miLiberty: 5% · 3.9 miCumberland: 3% · 44 miHagerstown: 3% · 45.5 miDuncansville: 3% · 20.8 miMarcus Hook: 3% · 152 miBedford 8%West Providence 8%East Providence 8%Allegheny 5%Riddlesburg
RiddlesburgTop destinations (size = commuters)
14%Under 10 mi5 residents
46%10–24 mi17 residents
19%25–50 mi7 residents
22%Over 50 mi8 residents

About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

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

Time on the road

About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Pennsylvania

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

A year of commuting
238 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Riddlesburg31 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

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

About 0 in 10
Next door

Riddlesburg and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Liberty (5%). Darker towns draw more of Riddlesburg’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Riddlesburg31 min
Liberty34 min
Broad Top34 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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