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Work & commute in Timber Hills · A commuter town

100% of Timber Hills’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Timber Hills for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Derry (21%), Harrisburg (5%) and Swatara (3%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 161 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
50%
More than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
18
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Timber Hills?

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

★ What stands out · Time on the road

Working from home in Timber Hills

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

Working from home
50%

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

About 5 in 10
The commute map

21% of working residents work in Derry

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

New YorkMount GretnaPalmyra: 4 residents work here (2%)EmmausLebanonLancaster: 4 residents work here (2%)Harrisburg: 8 residents work here (5%)Lower SwataraLower Paxton: 3 residents work here (2%)North Londonderry: 3 residents work here (2%)East HempfieldUnion: 3 residents work here (2%)Derry: 34 residents work here (21%)Swatara: 5 residents work here (3%)South AnnvilleSouth Lebanon: 4 residents work here (2%)South Londonderry: 5 residents work here (3%)Timber HillsDerryHarrisburgSwataraSouth LondonderryPalmyraLancasterTimber Hills
1
Derry9 mi away
21%34
2
Harrisburg21.2 mi away
5%8
3
Swatara16.9 mi away
3%5
43%5
5
Palmyra7.4 mi away
2%4
6
Lancaster17 mi away
2%4
7
South Lebanon7.1 mi away
2%4
8
Lower Paxton17.5 mi away
2%3
92%3
10
Union15 mi away
2%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
55%88
The top trips

Where Timber Hills clocks in

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

Day and night

Timber Hills quiets down on a workday

On a workday 161 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.

161live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
18work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night310
Workday160
310live here− 160head out to work+ 18come in to work= 160on a workday

About 160 people are in Timber Hills on a workday afternoon, 47% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.11jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.11 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 Timber Hills commutes less than 14 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 miDerry: 21% · 9 miHarrisburg: 5% · 21.2 miSwatara: 3% · 16.9 miSouth Londonderry: 3% · 3 miPalmyra: 2% · 7.4 miLancaster: 2% · 17 miSouth Lebanon: 2% · 7.1 miLower Paxton: 2% · 17.5 miNorth Londonderry: 2% · 7.3 miUnion: 2% · 15 miDerry 21%Swatara 3%South Londonderry 3%Palmyra 2%Timber Hills
Timber HillsTop destinations (size = commuters)
27%Under 10 mi43 residents
53%10–24 mi85 residents
6%25–50 mi9 residents
15%Over 50 mi24 residents

About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

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

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

Jobs based in Timber HillsJobs Timber Hills residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%17%
Trade, transport & utilities0%19%
Services: health, schools, offices100%64%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less61%12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%15%
Over $3,333 a month11%73%

Who does it

29 or younger28%18%
30 to 5422%56%
55 and older50%26%

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

Next door

Timber Hills and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to South Londonderry (3%). Darker towns draw more of Timber Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

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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