Work & commute · Silver Spring

Work & commute in Silver Spring, PA

Most working residents leave Silver Spring for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Harrisburg (10%), Hampden (8%) and Lower Paxton (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

1,032 of 8,605 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,573 Silver Spring residents head out of town to work, 1,032 work right here, and 12,082 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Silver Spring.

7,573live here, work elsewhere

1,032live and work here

12,082work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Silver Spring goes to work

Silver Spring (in town)right here

12%1,032

Harrisburg9.2 mi away

10%821

Hampden4 mi away

8%714

Lower Paxton14.2 mi away

5%405

Susquehanna10.9 mi away

5%390

Lower Allen7.4 mi away

4%373

East Pennsboro6.8 mi away

3%289

Carlisle8.5 mi away

3%227

South Middleton9.8 mi away

3%224

Upper Allen6.3 mi away

2%215

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%3,915

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

How far

How far Silver Spring commutes

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

53%

23%

17%

53%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Silver Spring is a job hub

1.52jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Silver Spring are

13,114 jobs are based in Silver Spring. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Silver Spring’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Silver Spring

13,114 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities38%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Silver Spring residents hold

8,605 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+33%

Jobs based in Silver Spring, 2013 → 2023: 9,897 → 13,114. 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.