Most of Skyline View commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 1% work in Skyline View itself; outside it, Derry Township draws the most (12%, 6 miles). Skyline View has 904 jobs; 2,089 of its residents have a job. The trip to work takes 21 minutes on average (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Skyline View at work: what stands out
Stores, warehouses and trucking
56% of the jobs in Skyline View are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Skyline View are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. 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.
What Skyline View’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Skyline View, 2013 → 2023: 1,075 → 904. 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 Skyline View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Skyline View: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Skyline View workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,953 commuters (the 17% 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.
A workday in Skyline View: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,059 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 874 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Skyline View 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Skyline View’s working residents head each day
Where Skyline View clocks in
12% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Skyline View
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 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 Skyline View: questions
What is the median household income in Skyline View?
$97,982 (±$32,222) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Skyline View?
2.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Skyline View?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Skyline View work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Derry Township (12%, 6 mi), Lower Paxton Township (12%, 4 mi), Harrisburg (11%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Skyline View without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Skyline View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Skyline View
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.