Flying Hills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 335 jobs in Flying Hills, against 1,019 working residents. Hardly any stay in Flying Hills for work; outside it, Reading is the main destination (13%, 4 miles). For 8% of workers, the job is at home (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Flying Hills at work: what stands out
Fewer jobs are based in Flying Hills than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Flying Hills fell from 1,366 in 2014 to 335 in 2024, −75%. 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 ↓
Most jobs in Flying Hills pay over $40,000 a year
74% of the jobs based in Flying Hills pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
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.
74% of the jobs in Flying Hills pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flying Hills, 2014 → 2024: 1,366 → 335. 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 Flying Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Flying Hills for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,014 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 330 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Flying Hills on a workday afternoon, 39% 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 Flying Hills goes to work
Where Flying Hills clocks in
13% of workers
7% of workers
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.
Getting to work from Flying Hills takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flying Hills workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 951 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Flying Hills
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 Flying Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Flying Hills?
$78,591 (±$5,985) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flying Hills?
6.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flying Hills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flying Hills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reading (13%, 4 mi), Cumru Township (7%, 2 mi), Wyomissing (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Flying Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flying Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flying Hills
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.