Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Emigsville commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Commuters spend 23 minutes getting to work on average; Pennsylvania averages 26, the U.S. 26. 812 jobs are based in Emigsville; 1,673 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Emigsville itself; outside it, York draws the most (12%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Emigsville and work: the main findings
Emigsville makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Emigsville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Emigsville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Most Emigsville residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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.
A place that makes things: 40% of Emigsville’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Emigsville, 2014 → 2024: 770 → 812. 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 Emigsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Emigsville’s workers travel
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.
Emigsville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,653 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 792 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Emigsville on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
The towns that employ Emigsville’s residents
Where Emigsville clocks in
12% 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.
Time on the road from Emigsville: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Emigsville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,758 commuters (the 13% 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.
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 Emigsville: questions
What is the median household income in Emigsville?
$69,816 (±$18,310) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Emigsville?
9.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Emigsville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Emigsville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are York (12%, 3 mi), Manchester Township (11%, 2 mi), Springettsbury Township (10%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Emigsville 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 Emigsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Emigsville
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.