Work & commute · Upper Allen

Work & commute in Upper Allen, PA

Most working residents leave Upper Allen for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Harrisburg (10%), Hampden (7%) and Lower Allen (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

646 of 9,015 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,369 Upper Allen residents head out of town to work, 646 work right here, and 6,865 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Upper Allen.

8,369live here, work elsewhere

646live and work here

6,865work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Upper Allen goes to work

Harrisburg8.4 mi away

10%884

Upper Allen (in town)right here

7%646

Hampden5.6 mi away

7%636

Lower Allen3.5 mi away

6%567

Silver Spring6.3 mi away

4%381

East Pennsboro7.6 mi away

4%316

Susquehanna11.2 mi away

3%286

Derry18.4 mi away

3%282

Lower Paxton13.4 mi away

3%279

Mechanicsburg2.5 mi away

3%269

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%4,469

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

How far

How far Upper Allen commutes

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

52%

23%

19%

52%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Upper Allen is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Upper Allen are

7,511 jobs are based in Upper Allen. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Upper Allen’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Upper Allen

7,511 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Upper Allen residents hold

9,015 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+10%

Jobs based in Upper Allen, 2013 → 2023: 6,841 → 7,511. 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.