Photo: CyberXRef · CC BY-SA 3.0Stiles has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
There are 47 jobs in Stiles for 551 working residents. Hardly any work in Stiles itself; outside it, Whitehall Township draws the most (10%, 1 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Stiles
Stiles is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in Stiles, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Stiles has about 940 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Stiles than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Stiles fell from 410 in 2013 to 47 in 2023, −89%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Most Stiles residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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; with 551 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Stiles quiets down on a workday
On a workday 551 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Stiles on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Stiles
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stiles, 2013 → 2023: 410 → 47. 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 Stiles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Stiles
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.
Where people from Stiles work
Where Stiles clocks in
9% 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.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Stiles
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stiles workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 695 commuters (the 13% 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.
Around Stiles: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Stiles’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 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 Stiles: questions
What is the median household income in Stiles?
$98,125 (±$29,407) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stiles?
0.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stiles?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stiles work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Whitehall Township (10%, 1 mi), Allentown (9%, 5 mi), Upper Macungie Township (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Stiles 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 Stiles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stiles
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.