Work & commute · Snow Shoe

Work & commute in Snow Shoe, PA

Most working residents leave Snow Shoe for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are College (16%), State College (8%) and Ferguson (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23 of 425 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 402 Snow Shoe residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Snow Shoe.

402live here, work elsewhere

23live and work here

138work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Snow Shoe goes to work

College16.3 mi away

16%70

State College17.1 mi away

8%32

Ferguson19.6 mi away

6%26

Snow Shoe (in town)right here

5%23

Bellefonte12.3 mi away

5%23

Snow Shoe1.3 mi away

5%21

Benner13 mi away

5%21

Boggs8.5 mi away

4%19

Spring14.6 mi away

3%13

Patton14.2 mi away

3%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%166

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

How far

How far Snow Shoe commutes

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

14%

58%

22%

14%Under 10 mi

58%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Snow Shoe is a commuter town

0.38jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.38 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Snow Shoe are

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

Jobs based in Snow Shoe

161 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Snow Shoe residents hold

425 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+20%

Jobs based in Snow Shoe, 2013 → 2023: 134 → 161. 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.