Puzzletown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. There are 6 jobs in Puzzletown for 33 working residents. Hardly any work in Puzzletown; the top destination outside it is Allegheny Township (24%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Puzzletown for work, and who comes in
On a workday 33 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 85 people are in Puzzletown on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Puzzletown work
Where Puzzletown clocks in
12% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Puzzletown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Puzzletown, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 6. 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 Puzzletown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Puzzletown
of Puzzletown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 83 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Puzzletown commutes less than 7 miles
About 15% 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 2023.
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 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 Puzzletown: questions
What is the poverty rate in Puzzletown?
0.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Puzzletown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Allegheny Township (24%, 5 mi), Hollidaysburg (12%, 6 mi), Altoona (12%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Puzzletown 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 Puzzletown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Puzzletown
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.