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Work & commute · Sugar Notch

Work & commute in Sugar Notch, PA

Most working residents leave Sugar Notch for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Hanover (14%), Wilkes-Barre (13%) and Plains (5%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
3 of 490 working residents
Typical commute
7 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
24 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
12%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 487 Sugar Notch residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 206 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Notch.

487live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
206work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Sugar Notch goes to work

Warrior RunSugar NotchPlymouthKingstonNanticokeHazletonWilkes-BarreScrantonWilkes-BarreWrightJenkinsKingstonHanoverLehmanPittstonPlainsHanoverWilkes-BarrePlainsJenkinsWilkes-BarreKingstonScrantonWrightPittstonNanticokeSugar Notch
1
Hanover0.7 mi away
14%70
2
Wilkes-Barre4.7 mi away
13%65
3
Plains7.8 mi away
5%25
4
Jenkins11.2 mi away
5%23
5
Wilkes-Barre4.6 mi away
4%19
6
Kingston5.4 mi away
3%15
7
Scranton20 mi away
2%10
8
Wright5.2 mi away
2%10
9
Pittston13.7 mi away
2%10
10
Nanticoke3.6 mi away
2%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
48%234

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

How far

How far Sugar Notch commutes

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

57%Under 10 mi
19%10–24 mi
6%25–50 mi
18%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Notch is a commuter town

0.43jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Notch are

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

Jobs based in Sugar Notch

209 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)23%
Trade, transport & utilities71%
Services (health, schools, offices…)6%
$1,250 a month or less11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month35%
Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Sugar Notch residents hold

490 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)19%
Trade, transport & utilities28%
Services (health, schools, offices…)53%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month57%
+1061%

Jobs based in Sugar Notch, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 209. 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.

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