Work & commute · Upper St. Clair

Work & commute in Upper St. Clair, PA

Most working residents leave Upper St. Clair for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Pittsburgh (31%), Cecil (4%) and Bethel Park (3%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

747 of 9,201 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,454 Upper St. Clair residents head out of town to work, 747 work right here, and 5,363 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Upper St. Clair.

8,454live here, work elsewhere

747live and work here

5,363work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Upper St. Clair goes to work

Pittsburgh9.3 mi away

31%2,814

Upper St. Clair (in town)right here

8%747

Cecil5.7 mi away

4%341

Bethel Park2.6 mi away

3%268

Robinson9 mi away

2%215

Findlay14.4 mi away

2%208

Moon13.8 mi away

2%206

Peters4.2 mi away

2%192

Scott3.7 mi away

2%177

South Fayette5.6 mi away

2%173

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%3,860

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

How far

How far Upper St. Clair commutes

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

58%

29%

58%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Upper St. Clair is a commuter town

0.66jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Upper St. Clair are

6,110 jobs are based in Upper St. Clair. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Upper St. Clair’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Upper St. Clair

6,110 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Upper St. Clair residents hold

9,201 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month14%

Over $3,333 a month73%

+3%

Jobs based in Upper St. Clair, 2013 → 2023: 5,931 → 6,110. 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.