Atkinson Mills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Atkinson Mills has 15 jobs for 66 working residents. Hardly any stay in Atkinson Mills for work; outside it, Mount Union is the main destination (11%, 6 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Atkinson Mills on a workday afternoon
On a workday 66 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Atkinson Mills on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Atkinson Mills goes to work
Where Atkinson Mills clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
What Atkinson Mills’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Atkinson Mills, 2014 → 2024: 1 → 15. 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 Atkinson Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Atkinson Mills, about 37 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Atkinson Mills workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 113 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.
Miles to work from Atkinson Mills
About 23% 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.
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 Atkinson Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Atkinson Mills?
$77,188 (±$70,587) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Atkinson Mills?
8.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Atkinson Mills?
37 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Atkinson Mills work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Union (11%, 6 mi), Shirley Township (9%, 8 mi), Wayne Township (8%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Atkinson Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Atkinson Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Atkinson Mills
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.