Work & commute · Upper Saucon

Work & commute in Upper Saucon, PA

Most working residents leave Upper Saucon for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Allentown (9%), Bethlehem (9%) and Upper Macungie (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

713 of 7,113 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,400 Upper Saucon residents head out of town to work, 713 work right here, and 8,135 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Upper Saucon.

6,400live here, work elsewhere

713live and work here

8,135work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Upper Saucon goes to work

Upper Saucon (in town)right here

10%713

Allentown5.4 mi away

9%655

Bethlehem6.5 mi away

9%622

Upper Macungie11.6 mi away

4%273

Salisbury4.3 mi away

3%242

Fountain Hill4.5 mi away

3%229

Philadelphia39.2 mi away

3%216

South Whitehall9.2 mi away

3%193

Richland6.2 mi away

2%153

Lower Macungie8.5 mi away

2%148

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%3,669

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

How far

How far Upper Saucon commutes

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

54%

19%

16%

11%

54%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Upper Saucon is balanced between jobs and homes

1.24jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Upper Saucon are

8,848 jobs are based in Upper Saucon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Upper Saucon’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Upper Saucon

8,848 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Upper Saucon residents hold

7,113 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month69%

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Jobs based in Upper Saucon, 2013 → 2023: 8,829 → 8,848. 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.