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Work & commute in Rouseville · A commuter town

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

Most working residents leave Rouseville for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Oil City (14%), Cranberry (14%) and Sugarcreek (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Work in town
1%
1 of 160 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
22 min
Less than PA (26 min)
Work from home
1%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
40
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Rouseville?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

14% of working residents work in Oil City

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

RousevillePleasantvilleClarion: 4 residents work here (3%)Titusville: 3 residents work here (2%)Oil City: 23 residents work here (14%)Franklin: 6 residents work here (4%)New Castle: 3 residents work here (2%)Sugarcreek: 10 residents work here (6%)IrwinCranberry: 23 residents work here (14%)Sandycreek: 4 residents work here (3%)Cornplanter: 4 residents work here (3%)Paint: 5 residents work here (3%)BeaverOil CityCranberrySugarcreekFranklinPaintClarionRouseville
1
Oil City3.1 mi away
14%23
2
Cranberry7.3 mi away
14%23
3
Sugarcreek7.9 mi away
6%10
4
Franklin9.8 mi away
4%6
5
Paint21.1 mi away
3%5
6
Clarion23.8 mi away
3%4
7
Sandycreek11.9 mi away
3%4
8
Cornplanter2.4 mi away
3%4
9
Titusville11 mi away
2%3
10
New Castle47.6 mi away
2%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
47%75
The top trips

Where Rouseville 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
170 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Rouseville22 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
1%

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

About 0 in 10
Day and night

Rouseville quiets down on a workday

On a workday 159 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.

159live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
39work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night460
Workday340
460live here− 160head out to work+ 39come in to work= 340on a workday

About 340 people are in Rouseville on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.25jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.25 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 Rouseville commutes less than 11 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 mi55 miOil City: 14% · 3.1 miCranberry: 14% · 7.3 miSugarcreek: 6% · 7.9 miFranklin: 4% · 9.8 miPaint: 3% · 21.1 miClarion: 3% · 23.8 miSandycreek: 3% · 11.9 miCornplanter: 3% · 2.4 miTitusville: 2% · 11 miNew Castle: 2% · 47.6 miOil City 14%Cranberry 14%Sugarcreek 6%Paint 3%Rouseville
RousevilleTop destinations (size = commuters)
46%Under 10 mi73 residents
16%10–24 mi26 residents
13%25–50 mi20 residents
26%Over 50 mi41 residents

About 26% 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.

The jobs

Rouseville makes things: 65% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in RousevilleJobs Rouseville residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms65%23%
Trade, transport & utilities0%17%
Services: health, schools, offices35%61%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less18%16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month30%31%
Over $3,333 a month53%53%

Who does it

29 or younger10%16%
30 to 5470%56%
55 and older20%28%
−62%

Jobs based in Rouseville, 2013 → 2023: 104 → 40. 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.

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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