Most of Chinchilla commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
298 jobs are based in Chinchilla, and 875 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Chinchilla for work; outside it, Scranton is the main destination (18%, 6 miles). For 6% of workers, the job is at home, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Chinchilla stands out on work
Chinchilla and Scranton trade workers both ways
Scranton is the top workplace for Chinchilla residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Chinchilla come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Chinchilla are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Chinchilla than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Chinchilla fell from 434 in 2013 to 298 in 2023, −31%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 875 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Chinchilla’s working residents head each day
Where Chinchilla 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.
From Chinchilla, about 17 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chinchilla workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,080 commuters (the 6% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Chinchilla
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chinchilla, 2013 → 2023: 434 → 298. 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 Chinchilla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Chinchilla
On a workday 872 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 295 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Chinchilla on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The distance from Chinchilla to work
About 20% 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 Chinchilla: questions
What is the median household income in Chinchilla?
$92,167 (±$17,650) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chinchilla?
2.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chinchilla?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chinchilla work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (18%, 6 mi), South Abington Township (9%, 1 mi), Dunmore (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chinchilla without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chinchilla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chinchilla
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.