Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Halifax has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Halifax itself; outside it, Halifax Township draws the most (10%, 1 miles). Halifax has 48 jobs for 323 working residents. Working residents average 26 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Halifax: the figures worth knowing
Who leaves Halifax for work, and who comes in
On a workday 320 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Halifax on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Halifax work
Where Halifax clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
In Halifax, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Halifax, 2013 → 2023: 62 → 48. 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 Halifax’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Halifax, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Halifax workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 195 commuters (the 15% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Halifax
About 16% 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.
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 Halifax: questions
What is the median household income in Halifax?
$53,472 (±$15,774) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Halifax?
25.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Halifax?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Halifax work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Halifax Township (10%, 1 mi), Harrisburg (9%, 13 mi), Upper Paxton Township (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Halifax without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Halifax, from the people who make the trip.
More of Halifax
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.