Where Sunbrook earns its living
Working residents average 16 minutes each way; Pennsylvania averages 26, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 7% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Hardly any stay in Sunbrook for work; outside it, Altoona is the main destination (16%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Sunbrook
On a workday 113 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 123 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).
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 Sunbrook goes to work
Where Sunbrook clocks in
16% 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 Sunbrook’s employers do
123 jobs are based in Sunbrook.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sunbrook, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 123. 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 Sunbrook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 16 minutes from Sunbrook
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sunbrook workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 220 commuters (the 7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Sunbrook
About 24% 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.
Around Sunbrook: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sunbrook workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunbrook | – | — | — | 16 min | $75,956 |
| Duncansville | under 2% | C | B | 16 min | $55,469 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sunbrook’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 Sunbrook: questions
What is the median household income in Sunbrook?
$75,956 (±$29,761) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sunbrook?
5.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sunbrook?
16 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sunbrook work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altoona (16%, 5 mi), Allegheny Township (15%, 3 mi), Logan Township (10%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sunbrook 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 Sunbrook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sunbrook
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.