Aspers draws 458 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
0% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). There are 467 jobs in Aspers, against 213 working residents. Only 4% work in Aspers; the top destination outside it is Menallen Township (12%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Aspers apart on work
Aspers makes and builds things
87% of the jobs based in Aspers are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Aspers residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Aspers pay better than its residents’ jobs
89% of the jobs based in Aspers pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 66% of the jobs Aspers residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Aspers. The jobs ↓
Few Aspers workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 213 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Goods jobs make up 87% of work in Aspers
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aspers, 2013 → 2023: 440 → 467. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aspers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Aspers: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aspers workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 203 commuters (the 0% 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.
Aspers on a workday afternoon
On a workday 204 residents head out to work and 9 work right here.
About 660 people are in Aspers on a workday afternoon, 63% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Aspers live
Where Aspers clocks in
5% 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.
Where in the region Aspers works
About 22% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Aspers: questions
What is the median household income in Aspers?
$87,778 (±$10,295) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aspers?
6.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aspers?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aspers work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Menallen Township (12%, 4 mi), Gettysburg (5%, 10 mi), Tyrone Township (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Aspers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aspers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aspers
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.