Work & commute · Spring

Work & commute in Spring, PA

Most working residents leave Spring for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Middleburg (6%), Penn (5%) and McClure (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

66 of 645 working residents

Typical commute

19 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 579 Spring residents head out of town to work, 66 work right here, and 428 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring.

579live here, work elsewhere

66live and work here

428work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring goes to work

Spring (in town)right here

10%66

Middleburg10.5 mi away

6%41

Penn18.4 mi away

5%33

McClure5.5 mi away

5%31

West Beaver3.6 mi away

3%18

Monroe21.1 mi away

3%17

Franklin9 mi away

3%17

Burnham19.1 mi away

2%15

Mifflinburg14.7 mi away

2%15

Perry12.9 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%378

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

How far

How far Spring commutes

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

26%

39%

16%

18%

26%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring 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 Spring are

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

Jobs based in Spring

494 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)52%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)29%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Spring residents hold

645 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+18%

Jobs based in Spring, 2013 → 2023: 417 → 494. 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.