Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · PA · GEOID 42513842024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 26.5 min one way; 22.1% worked from home, 72.8% drove alone, and 6.3% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip26.5 min±4.6 min MOE
Worked from home22.1%±5.2 pp MOE
Drove alone72.8%±4.4 pp MOE
60+ minute trip6.3%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Mountain Top CDP's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +0.7 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +11.1 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Mountain Top CDP residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 72.8%; 0.0% used public transit and 22.1% worked from home.
Each share uses 5,994 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Mountain Top CDP compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 60th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 60% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 84% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 52% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Mountain Top CDP's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 5,994 workers age 16+, including 4,670 workers with reported travel time and 1,324 home workers.
Population estimate11,850± 397 MOE
Workers age 16+5,994± 378 MOE
Workers with travel time4,670± 401 MOE
Estimated home workers1,324± 324 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Pennsylvania reports →Comparable Pennsylvania commute records for Mountain Top CDP
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.