Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Making a living in Wind Ridge
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%. Hardly any work in Wind Ridge; the top destination outside it is Franklin Township (16%, 13 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 44 minutes, next to 26 for Pennsylvania and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wind Ridge by day and by night
On a workday 76 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Wind Ridge on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Wind Ridge’s working residents head each day
Where Wind Ridge clocks in
16% of workers
13% 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.
A place that makes things: 89% of Wind Ridge’s jobs are in goods
44 jobs are based in Wind Ridge.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wind Ridge, 2014 → 2024: 75 → 44. 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 Wind Ridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Wind Ridge: about 44 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wind Ridge workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 73 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Wind Ridge
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 Wind Ridge: questions
What is the median household income in Wind Ridge?
$97,500 (±$20,738) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wind Ridge?
1.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wind Ridge?
44 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wind Ridge work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Franklin Township (16%, 13 mi), Center Township (13%, 8 mi), Pittsburgh (8%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Wind Ridge without a car?
7% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wind Ridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wind Ridge
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.