With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Spring Mills works elsewhere
Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Employers in Spring Mills report 83 jobs, against 147 working residents. Hardly any stay in Spring Mills for work; outside it, College Township is the main destination (25%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Spring Mills, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 146 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere.
About 500 people are in Spring Mills on a workday afternoon, 11% 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.
Commuting out of Spring Mills: the destinations
Where Spring Mills clocks in
25% of workers
8% 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 Spring Mills’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Mills, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 83. 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 Spring Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Spring Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Mills workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 290 commuters (the 4% 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.
How far Spring Mills goes to work
About 19% 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 Spring Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Mills?
$68,750 (±$15,373) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Mills?
4.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Mills?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Mills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (25%, 13 mi), State College (8%, 16 mi), Bellefonte (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Spring 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 Spring Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Mills
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.