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 4.0A job hub: New Kingstown has 3.0 jobs per working resident, and 889 people come in to work
7% of workers work from home; Pennsylvania has 16%. There are 889 jobs in New Kingstown, against 298 working residents. Hardly any work in New Kingstown; the top destination outside it is Silver Spring Township (15%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: New Kingstown in brief
New Kingstown is where the jobs are
New Kingstown has 889 jobs, 3.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,300 people are in town, 79% more than the 750 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
59% of the jobs in New Kingstown are in trade, transport and utilities, against 25% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in New Kingstown pay over $40,000 a year
84% of the jobs based in New Kingstown pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 298 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who leaves New Kingstown for work, and who comes in
On a workday 298 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 1,300 people are in New Kingstown on a workday afternoon, 79% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Goods, not services: 35% of the jobs in New Kingstown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Kingstown, 2014 → 2024: 527 → 889. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Kingstown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to New Kingstown: where workers come from
Where New Kingstown clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Commuting from New Kingstown: about 19 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Kingstown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 405 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from New Kingstown
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 2024.
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 2024, 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 New Kingstown: questions
What is the poverty rate in New Kingstown?
24.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Kingstown?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Kingstown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Silver Spring Township (15%, 1 mi), Hampden Township (8%, 5 mi), Harrisburg (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around New Kingstown 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 New Kingstown, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Kingstown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.