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Work & commute in Spring Mount · A commuter town

100% of Spring Mount’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Spring Mount for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (6%), Limerick (4%) and Tredyffrin (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Work in town
0%
4 of 1,237 working residents
Typical commute
13 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
32 min
More than PA (26 min)
Work from home
8%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
77
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Spring Mount?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

6% of working residents work in Philadelphia

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

TrappePhiladelphia: 74 residents work here (6%)DouglassUpper FrederickUpper Providence: 41 residents work here (3%)WashingtonUpper SalfordUpper Gwynedd: 36 residents work here (3%)Perkiomen: 34 residents work here (3%)Plymouth: 31 residents work here (3%)ExeterLower FrederickUpper DarbySkippack: 32 residents work here (3%)Upper Merion: 42 residents work here (3%)Limerick: 45 residents work here (4%)Lower Salford: 33 residents work here (3%)Tredyffrin: 44 residents work here (4%)Spring MountPhiladelphiaLimerickTredyffrinUpper MerionUpper ProvidenceUpper GwyneddSpring Mount
1
Philadelphia25.5 mi away
6%74
2
Limerick4.4 mi away
4%45
3
Tredyffrin14.3 mi away
4%44
4
Upper Merion13.6 mi away
3%42
5
Upper Providence7.5 mi away
3%41
6
Upper Gwynedd10.6 mi away
3%36
7
Perkiomen2.9 mi away
3%34
8
Lower Salford3.9 mi away
3%33
9
Skippack4.8 mi away
3%32
10
Plymouth14.4 mi away
3%31
Everywhere elseother towns and states
67%825
The top trips

Where Spring Mount clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 32 minutes each way, longer than most of Pennsylvania

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
247 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Spring Mount32 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
8%

of Spring Mount workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Day and night

Spring Mount quiets down on a workday

On a workday 1,233 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 73 people come in from elsewhere.

1,233live here, work elsewhere
4live and work here
73work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night2,300
Workday1,100
2,300live here− 1,200head out to work+ 73come in to work= 1,100on a workday

About 1,100 people are in Spring Mount on a workday afternoon, 51% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.06jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Spring Mount commutes less than 13 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi30 miPhiladelphia: 6% · 25.5 miLimerick: 4% · 4.4 miTredyffrin: 4% · 14.3 miUpper Merion: 3% · 13.6 miUpper Providence: 3% · 7.5 miUpper Gwynedd: 3% · 10.6 miPerkiomen: 3% · 2.9 miLower Salford: 3% · 3.9 miSkippack: 3% · 4.8 miPlymouth: 3% · 14.4 miPhiladelphia 6%Limerick 4%Tredyffrin 4%Upper Merion 3%Upper Providence 3%Spring Mount
Spring MountTop destinations (size = commuters)
35%Under 10 mi431 residents
45%10–24 mi559 residents
14%25–50 mi168 residents
6%Over 50 mi76 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

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

Jobs based in Spring MountJobs Spring Mount residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms6%16%
Trade, transport & utilities4%21%
Services: health, schools, offices90%63%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less21%12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month34%18%
Over $3,333 a month45%71%

Who does it

29 or younger18%20%
30 to 5442%51%
55 and older40%29%
−31%

Jobs based in Spring Mount, 2013 → 2023: 111 → 77. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Next door

Spring Mount and the towns next door

Darker towns draw more of Spring Mount’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Lower Frederick: few work hereUpper Salford: few work hereLower FrederickUpper SalfordSpring Mount
10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Upper Salford25 min
Lower Frederick31 min
Spring Mount32 min
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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