Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Ashville works elsewhere
5% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Ashville has 17 jobs; 83 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Ashville itself; outside it, Altoona draws the most (18%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Ashville, and who commutes in
On a workday 83 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Ashville on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The places Ashville commutes to
Where Ashville clocks in
18% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Ashville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ashville, 2014 → 2024: 7 → 17. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ashville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Ashville, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ashville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 74 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Ashville’s commute, mile by mile
About 16% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Ashville and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ashville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashville | – | — | — | 31 min | $60,714 |
| Clearfield Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 28 min | $87,813 |
| Gallitzin Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Gallitzin Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ashville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ashville: questions
What is the median household income in Ashville?
$60,714 (±$17,094) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ashville?
14.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ashville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ashville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altoona (18%, 8 mi), Logan Township (6%, 7 mi), Allegheny Township (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Ashville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ashville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ashville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.