Work & commute · West St. Clair

Work & commute in West St. Clair, PA

Most working residents leave West St. Clair for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Bedford (18%), East St. Clair (8%) and Bedford (5%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 722 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 689 West St. Clair residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 365 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in West St. Clair.

689live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

365work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where West St. Clair goes to work

Bedford11 mi away

18%133

East St. Clair5.4 mi away

8%55

Bedford13.3 mi away

5%35

West St. Clair (in town)right here

5%33

Altoona25.9 mi away

3%23

Napier7.3 mi away

3%19

Greenfield11.5 mi away

3%19

Snake Spring15.2 mi away

2%18

Richland13.2 mi away

2%16

Allegheny20.8 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%358

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

How far

How far West St. Clair commutes

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

26%

41%

23%

26%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

West St. Clair is a commuter town

0.55jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in West St. Clair are

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

Jobs based in West St. Clair

398 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)75%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)10%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs West St. Clair residents hold

722 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+34%

Jobs based in West St. Clair, 2013 → 2023: 296 → 398. 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.