Langeloth draws 486 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
Only 3% work in Langeloth itself; outside it, Smith Township draws the most (11%, 2 miles). Employers in Langeloth report 493 jobs for 278 working residents. A typical one-way commute lasts 22 minutes (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Langeloth apart
Langeloth makes and builds things
92% of the jobs based in Langeloth are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Langeloth residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Langeloth’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Langeloth is Pittsburgh, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (30) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The jobs in Langeloth pay better than its residents’ jobs
85% of the jobs based in Langeloth pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 64% of the jobs Langeloth residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Langeloth. 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 278 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Goods, not services: 92% of the jobs in Langeloth
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Langeloth, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 493. 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 Langeloth’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Langeloth
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.
The daily commute in and out of Langeloth
On a workday 271 residents head out to work and 7 work right here.
About 850 people are in Langeloth on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Where Langeloth’s workers come from
Where Langeloth clocks in
11% of workers
11% 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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Langeloth workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 284 commuters (the 18% 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 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 Langeloth: questions
What is the median household income in Langeloth?
$75,565 (±$18,391) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Langeloth?
9.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Langeloth?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Langeloth work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Smith Township (11%, 2 mi), Pittsburgh (11%, 24 mi), Findlay Township (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Langeloth without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Langeloth, from the people who make the trip.
More of Langeloth
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.