Work & commute · Slippery Rock

Work & commute in Slippery Rock, PA

Most working residents leave Slippery Rock for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Pittsburgh (16%), Slippery Rock (7%) and Butler (3%). Half commute less than 28 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

86 of 1,066 working residents

Typical commute

28 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 980 Slippery Rock residents head out of town to work, 86 work right here, and 739 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Slippery Rock.

980live here, work elsewhere

86live and work here

739work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Slippery Rock goes to work

Pittsburgh43.7 mi away

16%172

Slippery Rock (in town)right here

8%86

Slippery Rock1.4 mi away

7%77

Butler16.7 mi away

3%37

Butler16.6 mi away

3%36

Cranberry25 mi away

3%28

Grove City6.3 mi away

2%26

Springfield9.1 mi away

2%18

Cherry7 mi away

2%17

New Castle15.9 mi away

1%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%556

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

How far

How far Slippery Rock commutes

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

24%

22%

37%

17%

24%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

37%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Slippery Rock is balanced between jobs and homes

0.77jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Slippery Rock are

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

Jobs based in Slippery Rock

825 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Slippery Rock residents hold

1,066 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−63%

Jobs based in Slippery Rock, 2013 → 2023: 2,227 → 825. 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.