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Work & commute in Ronks · A commuter town

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

Most working residents leave Ronks for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are East Lampeter (12%), Lancaster (9%) and Manheim (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 170 working residents
Typical commute
10 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
22 min
Less than PA (26 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
94
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Ronks?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

12% of working residents work in East Lampeter

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

New Holland: 6 residents work here (4%)LititzEphrata: 3 residents work here (2%)HanoverLancaster: 15 residents work here (9%)PhiladelphiaEarl: 3 residents work here (2%)East Hempfield: 8 residents work here (5%)SadsburySalisbury: 5 residents work here (3%)West EarlWest LampeterDerry: 4 residents work here (2%)ParadiseEast Lampeter: 21 residents work here (12%)PennUpper Leacock: 9 residents work here (5%)Manheim: 11 residents work here (6%)Bird-in-HandRonksSoudersburgEast LampeterLancasterManheimUpper LeacockEast HempfieldNew HollandRonks
1
East Lampeter2.1 mi away
12%21
2
Lancaster6.7 mi away
9%15
3
Manheim7.7 mi away
6%11
4
Upper Leacock3.7 mi away
5%9
5
East Hempfield11.6 mi away
5%8
6
New Holland6.8 mi away
4%6
7
Salisbury9.6 mi away
3%5
8
Derry30.1 mi away
2%4
9
Ephrata10.5 mi away
2%3
10
Earl6.9 mi away
2%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
50%85
The top trips

Where Ronks clocks in

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

Time on the road

About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania

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

A year of commuting
167 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Ronks22 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

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

About 0 in 10
Day and night

Ronks quiets down on a workday

On a workday 170 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 94 people come in from elsewhere.

170live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
94work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night200
Workday130
200live here− 170head out to work+ 94come in to work= 130on a workday

About 130 people are in Ronks on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 Ronks commutes less than 10 miles

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

10 mi25 mi35 miEast Lampeter: 12% · 2.1 miLancaster: 9% · 6.7 miManheim: 6% · 7.7 miUpper Leacock: 5% · 3.7 miEast Hempfield: 5% · 11.6 miNew Holland: 4% · 6.8 miSalisbury: 3% · 9.6 miDerry: 2% · 30.1 miEphrata: 2% · 10.5 miEarl: 2% · 6.9 miEast Lampeter 12%Lancaster 9%Manheim 6%Upper Leacock 5%Ronks
RonksTop destinations (size = commuters)
51%Under 10 mi86 residents
24%10–24 mi41 residents
17%25–50 mi29 residents
8%Over 50 mi14 residents

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

The jobs

Ronks makes things: 33% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in RonksJobs Ronks residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms33%25%
Trade, transport & utilities52%21%
Services: health, schools, offices15%55%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less13%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%26%
Over $3,333 a month65%59%

Who does it

29 or younger40%24%
30 to 5437%54%
55 and older22%22%
−54%

Jobs based in Ronks, 2013 → 2023: 204 → 94. 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.

Next door

Ronks and the towns next door

Darker towns draw more of Ronks’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

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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