Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Pine Grove Mills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
52% of workers have no commute at all, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. There are 279 jobs in Pine Grove Mills for 662 working residents. Only 2% work in Pine Grove Mills itself; outside it, College Township draws the most (29%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Pine Grove Mills, in brief
Home offices are common in Pine Grove Mills
52% of Pine Grove Mills workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Time on the road ↓
Most Pine Grove Mills residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
29% of Pine Grove Mills works in College Township
194 working residents, 29%, have their main job in College Township, 6.8 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Pine Grove Mills itself. The commute map ↓
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 662 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Getting to work from Pine Grove Mills takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Grove Mills workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 497 commuters (the 52% 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 in the region Pine Grove Mills works
About 18% 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.
Where people from Pine Grove Mills work
Where Pine Grove Mills clocks in
29% of workers
15% of workers
11% 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.
Who leaves Pine Grove Mills for work, and who comes in
On a workday 651 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 268 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Pine Grove Mills on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
In Pine Grove Mills, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Grove Mills, 2014 → 2024: 79 → 279. 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 Pine Grove Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Pine Grove Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Grove Mills?
$180,173 (±$27,878) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Grove Mills?
0.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Grove Mills?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 52% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Grove Mills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (29%, 7 mi), Ferguson Township (15%, 3 mi), State College (11%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Pine Grove Mills 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 Pine Grove Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Grove Mills
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.