98% of Trooper’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Trooper for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (8%), Lower Providence Township (7%) and Upper Merion Township (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Day and night
Trooper quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,440 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 767 people come in from elsewhere.
2,440live here, work elsewhere
43live and work here
767work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night4,900
Workday3,200
4,900live here− 2,400head out to work+ 770come in to work= 3,200on a workday
About 3,200 people are in Trooper on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
Job hub or commuter town?
0.33 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 Trooper commutes less than 9 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
TrooperTop destinations (size = commuters)
56%
30%
56%Under 10 mi1,373 residents
30%10–24 mi743 residents
8%25–50 mi186 residents
7%Over 50 mi169 residents
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
The jobs
What the 810 jobs in Trooper are
810 jobs are based in Trooper. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Trooper’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Jobs based in TrooperJobs Trooper residents hold
What kind of work
Goods: factories, building, farms4%13%
Trade, transport & utilities34%17%
Services: health, schools, offices61%69%
What it pays
$1,250 a month or less27%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%16%
Over $3,333 a month45%72%
Who does it
29 or younger32%19%
30 to 5443%50%
55 and older25%31%
−6%
Jobs based in Trooper, 2013 → 2023: 865 → 810. 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.
Time on the road
About 29 minutes each way, longer than most of Pennsylvania
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
A year of commuting
220 hours
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
Trooper29 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
19%
of Trooper workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
About 2 in 10
Next door
Trooper and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Trooper’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
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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.
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Two surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
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Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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