Photo: Dicklyon · CC BY-SA 4.0Bainbridge has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 2% work in Bainbridge itself; outside it, West Donegal Township draws the most (7%, 3 miles). Bainbridge has 169 jobs for 725 working residents. For 7% of workers, the job is at home (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Bainbridge apart on work
Bainbridge is a place people come home to
There are 169 jobs based in Bainbridge, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bainbridge has about 820 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bainbridge workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 725 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In and out of Bainbridge on a workday
On a workday 714 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 158 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Bainbridge on a workday afternoon, 40% 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 2023, primary jobs.
About 32 minutes each way for Bainbridge’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bainbridge workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 763 commuters (the 7% 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.
Where Bainbridge goes to work
Where Bainbridge clocks in
6% 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.
Bainbridge makes things: 62% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bainbridge, 2013 → 2023: 199 → 169. 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 Bainbridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Bainbridge
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 Bainbridge: questions
What is the median household income in Bainbridge?
$99,167 (±$42,810) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bainbridge?
6.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bainbridge?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bainbridge work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Donegal Township (7%, 3 mi), Derry Township (6%, 12 mi), Elizabethtown (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bainbridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bainbridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bainbridge
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.