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 4.0Grill has 3.6 jobs for every working resident: 2,390 people commute in to work
Employers in Grill report 2,419 jobs, and 669 of its residents work somewhere. The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average; Pennsylvania averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Grill, in a few figures
Grill has far more jobs than workers
Grill has 2,419 jobs, 3.6 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,700 people are in town, 92% more than the 1,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Grill is services
94% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Grill pay better than its residents’ jobs
88% of the jobs based in Grill pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 67% of the jobs Grill residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Grill. 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 669 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Grill nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 640 residents head out to work and 29 work right here.
About 3,700 people are in Grill on a workday afternoon, 92% more 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.
Most jobs in Grill are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grill, 2013 → 2023: 221 → 2,419. 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 Grill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Grill’s workforce comes from
Where Grill clocks in
13% of workers
10% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Grill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grill workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 871 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Grill
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.
13% of Grill works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Reading. Darker towns draw more of Grill’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 Grill: questions
What is the median household income in Grill?
$144,457 (±$56,719) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grill?
0.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grill?
18 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grill work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reading (13%, 3 mi), Cumru Township (10%, 2 mi), West Reading (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grill 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 Grill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grill
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.