How Yorklyn works: jobs, income and commuting
There are 624 jobs in Yorklyn, and 792 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Yorklyn; the top destination outside it is Springettsbury Township (18%, 2 miles). The average commute takes 21 minutes each way, where Pennsylvania has 26 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Yorklyn: the gist
Many jobs in Yorklyn pay little
35% of the jobs based in Yorklyn pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 39% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Yorklyn
63% of Yorklyn residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 36% of the jobs based in Yorklyn pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Yorklyn are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 792 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What Yorklyn’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yorklyn, 2014 → 2024: 671 → 624. 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 Yorklyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Yorklyn takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yorklyn workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 689 commuters (the 13% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Yorklyn
On a workday 785 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 617 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Yorklyn on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
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 Yorklyn to work: where people go
Where Yorklyn clocks in
9% of workers
6% 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.
How far it is to work from Yorklyn
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 Yorklyn: questions
What is the median household income in Yorklyn?
$73,690 (±$8,964) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yorklyn?
10.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yorklyn?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yorklyn work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springettsbury Township (18%, 2 mi), York (9%, 5 mi), York Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Yorklyn 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 Yorklyn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yorklyn
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.