Photo: Dougtone · CC BY-SA 2.0Work, pay and getting to work in Gardners
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Hardly any work in Gardners itself; outside it, South Middleton Township draws the most (10%, 9 miles). There are 57 jobs in Gardners, against 73 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Gardners on a workday afternoon
On a workday 73 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 60 people are in Gardners on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Gardners goes to work
Where Gardners clocks in
10% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Gardners: what the 57 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gardners, 2013 → 2023: 293 → 57. 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 Gardners’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Gardners
of Gardners workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 41 commuters (the 0% 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 in the region Gardners works
About 15% 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.
Next door to Gardners
The biggest share goes to Huntington Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gardners workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardners | – | — | — | — | $67,292 |
| Huntington Township | 3% | A− | C− | 30 min | $75,324 |
| Idaville | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Menallen Township | under 3% | B | D | 28 min | $86,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Idaville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gardners’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Gardners: questions
What is the median household income in Gardners?
$67,292 (±$12,128) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gardners?
27.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Gardners work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Middleton Township (10%, 9 mi), New Oxford (4%, 13 mi), Carlisle (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gardners without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 44% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gardners, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gardners
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.