Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Vicksburg has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Vicksburg itself; outside it, Kelly Township draws the most (14%, 6 miles). There are 11 jobs in Vicksburg, and 83 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 0% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Vicksburg on a workday afternoon
On a workday 83 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Vicksburg on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Vicksburg goes to work
Where Vicksburg clocks in
14% of workers
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 36% of Vicksburg’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vicksburg, 2014 → 2024: 35 → 11. 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 Vicksburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes each way for Vicksburg’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vicksburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 170 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Vicksburg works
About 20% 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 Vicksburg: questions
What is the median household income in Vicksburg?
$37,961 (±$19,948) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vicksburg?
42.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vicksburg?
18 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vicksburg work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kelly Township (14%, 6 mi), Milton (7%, 8 mi), Lewisburg (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Vicksburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 30% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vicksburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vicksburg
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.