Work & commute · St. Lawrence

Work & commute in St. Lawrence, PA

Most working residents leave St. Lawrence for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Reading (10%), Exeter (5%) and Wyomissing (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

30 of 1,133 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,103 St. Lawrence residents head out of town to work, 30 work right here, and 1,485 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Lawrence.

1,103live here, work elsewhere

30live and work here

1,485work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Lawrence goes to work

Reading3.4 mi away

10%118

Exeter1.7 mi away

5%61

Wyomissing5.4 mi away

5%51

Muhlenberg5.8 mi away

4%41

West Reading4.4 mi away

4%40

Cumru6.1 mi away

3%39

Spring9 mi away

3%38

St. Lawrence (in town)right here

3%30

Caernarvon11.1 mi away

3%30

Philadelphia44.3 mi away

2%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%662

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

How far

How far St. Lawrence commutes

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

45%

24%

23%

45%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Lawrence is balanced between jobs and homes

1.34jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Lawrence are

1,515 jobs are based in St. Lawrence. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Lawrence’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Lawrence

1,515 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs St. Lawrence residents hold

1,133 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+133%

Jobs based in St. Lawrence, 2013 → 2023: 650 → 1,515. 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.