Photo: Ruhrfisch 00:33, 23 December 2009 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 4.0Picture Rocks has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Employers in Picture Rocks report 34 jobs, against 268 working residents. Hardly any work in Picture Rocks itself; outside it, Muncy Township draws the most (7%, 5 miles). Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Picture Rocks
Picture Rocks is a place people come home to
There are 34 jobs based in Picture Rocks, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Picture Rocks has about 400 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Picture Rocks workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 268 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Picture Rocks
On a workday 268 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 400 people are in Picture Rocks on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 28 minutes each way for Picture Rocks’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Picture Rocks workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 332 commuters (the 3% 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.
Where people from Picture Rocks work
Where Picture Rocks clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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.
What Picture Rocks’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Picture Rocks, 2014 → 2024: 71 → 34. 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 Picture Rocks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Picture Rocks’ workers travel
About 28% 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.
Picture Rocks and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Picture Rocks workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picture Rocks | – | — | — | 28 min | $94,821 |
| Shrewsbury Township | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Wolf Township | under 3% | C | D | 22 min | $71,492 |
| Penn Township | under 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Shrewsbury Township and Penn Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Picture Rocks’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 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 Picture Rocks: questions
What is the median household income in Picture Rocks?
$94,821 (±$25,999) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Picture Rocks?
6.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Picture Rocks?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Picture Rocks work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muncy Township (7%, 5 mi), Hughesville (7%, 3 mi), Muncy Creek Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Picture Rocks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Picture Rocks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Picture Rocks
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.