Work & commute · Spring Garden

Work & commute in Spring Garden, PA

Most working residents leave Spring Garden for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are York (13%), Springettsbury (9%) and York (6%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

409 of 6,006 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 5,597 Spring Garden residents head out of town to work, 409 work right here, and 7,706 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring Garden.

5,597live here, work elsewhere

409live and work here

7,706work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring Garden goes to work

York1.6 mi away

13%802

Springettsbury4.1 mi away

9%549

Spring Garden (in town)right here

7%409

York3.3 mi away

6%389

West Manchester3.7 mi away

5%299

Manchester5.3 mi away

4%238

Lancaster23.3 mi away

2%106

Baltimore, MD44.8 mi away

2%102

Manheim24.7 mi away

1%73

Harrisburg24.6 mi away

1%72

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%2,967

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

How far

How far Spring Garden commutes

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

53%

18%

12%

17%

53%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring Garden is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Spring Garden are

8,115 jobs are based in Spring Garden. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spring Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spring Garden

8,115 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Spring Garden residents hold

6,006 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−9%

Jobs based in Spring Garden, 2013 → 2023: 8,960 → 8,115. 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.