Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Three Springs has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
6% of workers have no commute at all; Pennsylvania has 16%. There are 38 jobs in Three Springs for 169 working residents. Only 1% stay in Three Springs for work; outside it, Cromwell Township is the main destination (17%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Three Springs on a workday afternoon
On a workday 167 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Three Springs on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Three Springs to work: where people go
Where Three Springs clocks in
17% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Three Springs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Three Springs, 2014 → 2024: 64 → 38. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Three Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 37 minutes each way for Three Springs’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Three Springs workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 146 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Three Springs
About 23% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Three Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Three Springs?
$50,573 (±$13,531) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Three Springs?
10.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Three Springs?
37 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Three Springs work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cromwell Township (17%, 5 mi), Ayr Township (8%, 23 mi), Shirley Township (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Three Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Three Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Three Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.