Fort Ligonier Site · Photo: The original uploader was Mind meal at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Ligonier
27% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%). For jobs and income Ligonier is better than 50% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (A). About one in ten work in Ligonier itself; outside it, Ligonier Township draws the most (13%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ligonier: the figures worth knowing
Many jobs in Ligonier pay little
30% of the jobs based in Ligonier pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Ligonier
27% of Ligonier workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Time on the road ↓
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 640 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Ligonier’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ligonier’s grade. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Ligonier’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ligonier could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Jobs in Ligonier: what the 761 are
761 jobs are based in Ligonier.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ligonier, 2013 → 2023: 807 → 761. 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 Ligonier’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way for Ligonier’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ligonier workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 511 commuters (the 27% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Ligonier
On a workday 567 residents head out to work, 73 work right here, and 688 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 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 Ligonier’s working residents head each day
Where Ligonier clocks in
13% 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.
Half of Ligonier commutes less than 16 miles
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Ligonier
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 700 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.6% of Ligonier households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ligonier’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ligonier places 2,235th of 6,308 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,233 | Carter TX | 1,738 | $103K | 19.5% | 3.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,234 | Morningside MD | 1,232 | $69K | 21.4% | 4.7% | 2% | B− |
| 2,235 | Ligonier PA | 1,462 | $71K | 8.9% | 3.9% | 11% | B− |
| 2,236 | Florence TX | 1,245 | $79K | 14.7% | 5.0% | 5% | B− |
| 2,237 | Limestone Creek FL | 1,466 | $91K | 29.6% | 2.4% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ligonier, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Ligonier: questions
What is the median household income in Ligonier?
$71,250 (±$20,435) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ligonier?
8.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ligonier?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ligonier work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ligonier Township (13%, 1 mi), Unity Township (10%, 10 mi), Latrobe (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ligonier walkable?
Ligonier is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ligonier without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ligonier, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ligonier
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.