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Work & commute in Van Voorhis · A commuter town

100% of Van Voorhis’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Van Voorhis for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Carroll (10%), Charleroi (7%) and North Strabane (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 58 working residents
Typical commute
13 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
0%
Less than PA (16%)
Jobs based here
5
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Van Voorhis?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

10% of working residents work in Carroll

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

Charleroi: 4 residents work here (7%)MonessenShippingportWhitehall: 2 residents work here (3%)Bentleyville: 2 residents work here (3%)North HuntingdonNorth Strabane: 3 residents work here (5%)Rostraver: 2 residents work here (3%)CantonCarroll: 6 residents work here (10%)Cecil: 3 residents work here (5%)South Park: 2 residents work here (3%)Fallowfield: 2 residents work here (3%)Chartiers: 3 residents work here (5%)Van VoorhisCarrollCharleroiNorth StrabaneCecilChartiersWhitehallVan Voorhis
1
Carroll2.6 mi away
10%6
2
Charleroi4.2 mi away
7%4
3
North Strabane10.5 mi away
5%3
4
Cecil15.5 mi away
5%3
5
Chartiers15.9 mi away
5%3
6
Whitehall13.9 mi away
3%2
7
Bentleyville3.3 mi away
3%2
8
Rostraver9 mi away
3%2
9
South Park9.7 mi away
3%2
10
Fallowfield1.5 mi away
3%2
Everywhere elseother towns and states
50%29
The top trips

Where Van Voorhis clocks in

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

Day and night

Van Voorhis quiets down on a workday

On a workday 58 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.

58live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
5work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night520
Workday460
520live here− 58head out to work+ 5come in to work= 460on a workday

About 460 people are in Van Voorhis on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.09jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.09 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 Van Voorhis commutes less than 13 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 miCarroll: 10% · 2.6 miCharleroi: 7% · 4.2 miNorth Strabane: 5% · 10.5 miCecil: 5% · 15.5 miChartiers: 5% · 15.9 miWhitehall: 3% · 13.9 miBentleyville: 3% · 3.3 miRostraver: 3% · 9 miSouth Park: 3% · 9.7 miFallowfield: 3% · 1.5 miCarroll 10%Charleroi 7%North Strabane 5%Cecil 5%Chartiers 5%Van Voorhis
Van VoorhisTop destinations (size = commuters)
36%Under 10 mi20 residents
52%10–24 mi29 residents
7%25–50 mi4 residents
5%Over 50 mi3 residents

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

5 jobs are based in Van Voorhis. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Van Voorhis’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Van VoorhisJobs Van Voorhis residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%16%
Trade, transport & utilities0%24%
Services: health, schools, offices100%60%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less0%9%
$1,251–$3,333 a month60%31%
Over $3,333 a month40%60%

Who does it

29 or younger0%22%
30 to 5480%50%
55 and older20%28%

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

Time on the road

Working from home in Van Voorhis

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

Working from home
0%

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

About 0 in 10
Next door

13% of Van Voorhis works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Carroll (10%). Darker towns draw more of Van Voorhis’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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