Most of Continental Courts commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Continental Courts has 6 jobs, and 324 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Continental Courts for work; outside it, College Township is the main destination (25%, 5 miles). 7% 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
The commute and the jobs: Continental Courts in brief
Continental Courts is a place people come home to
There are 6 jobs based in Continental Courts, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Continental Courts has about 260 people in it, 55% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Continental Courts residents work close to home
69% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Continental Courts are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 324 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In and out of Continental Courts on a workday
On a workday 324 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Continental Courts on a workday afternoon, 55% 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.
Half of Continental Courts commutes less than 6 miles
About 21% 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.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Continental Courts
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Continental Courts workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 279 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 Continental Courts’ working residents head each day
Where Continental Courts clocks in
25% of workers
11% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Continental Courts
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Continental Courts, 2014 → 2024: 5 → 6. 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 Continental Courts’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Continental Courts: questions
What is the median household income in Continental Courts?
$50,721 (±$37,043) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Continental Courts?
8.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Continental Courts?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Continental Courts work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (25%, 5 mi), State College (11%, 6 mi), Benner Township (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Continental Courts without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Continental Courts, from the people who make the trip.
More of Continental Courts
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.