Most of Valley Green commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 8% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. There are 412 jobs in Valley Green, against 1,689 working residents. Hardly any work in Valley Green itself; outside it, Harrisburg draws the most (9%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Valley Green apart
Fewer jobs are based in Valley Green than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Valley Green fell from 1,027 in 2014 to 412 in 2024, −60%. 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 ↓
Valley Green is a place people come home to
There are 412 jobs based in Valley Green, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Valley Green has about 2,400 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What Valley Green’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Valley Green, 2014 → 2024: 1,027 → 412. 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 Valley Green’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Valley Green quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,673 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 396 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Valley Green 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Valley Green’s residents
Where Valley Green clocks in
9% of workers
6% 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.
About 22 minutes to work from Valley Green
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Valley Green workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,872 commuters (the 8% 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.
The commute from Valley Green, by distance
About 15% 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 Valley Green: questions
What is the median household income in Valley Green?
$91,824 (±$35,608) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Valley Green?
8.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Valley Green?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Valley Green work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisburg (9%, 10 mi), Fairview Township (6%, 3 mi), Newberry Township (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Valley Green without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Valley Green, from the people who make the trip.
More of Valley Green
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.