Work & commute · Speers

Work & commute in Speers, PA

Most working residents leave Speers for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Charleroi (7%), Pittsburgh (6%) and Rostraver (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27 of 406 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 379 Speers residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 1,196 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Speers.

379live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

1,196work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Speers goes to work

Charleroi1.5 mi away

7%29

Speers (in town)right here

7%27

Pittsburgh22.5 mi away

6%23

Rostraver5.2 mi away

5%21

Fallowfield4.7 mi away

3%14

California4.2 mi away

3%11

Carroll4.6 mi away

3%11

North Strabane16 mi away

2%9

Monessen2 mi away

2%8

Cecil20.9 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%245

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

How far

How far Speers commutes

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

41%

39%

11%

41%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Speers is a job hub

3.01jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Speers are

1,223 jobs are based in Speers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Speers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Speers

1,223 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)44%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month75%

Jobs Speers residents hold

406 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+64%

Jobs based in Speers, 2013 → 2023: 748 → 1,223. 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.