The Lehigh Valley has a robust and growing trail network comprised of larger paths such as the D&L Trail, to smaller community trails, such as the Ironton Rail Trail or Karl Stirner Arts Trail. And while Lehigh Valley drivers may find the wait on some of the region’s roads frustrating, their average daily commute of 26 minutes is less than the 33 minutes Philadelphians spend on the road and the 40 minutes it takes the typical New Yorker to get to work. Consider that in addition to those close to 10,000 people traveling to New York and Philadelphia, 78 Lehigh Valley residents work in Tioga County, and more than 1,300 Pittsburgh area residents come here to work. But, their central location in the Northeast makes Lehigh and Northampton counties part of a diverse commuting corridor that allows residents a wide radius for which to travel to work, while people from outside the region sometimes travel long distances to work here. More than 7,700 Valley residents work in Philadelphia and another 2,200 works in Manhattan. The Lehigh Valley is sometimes called a bedroom community for the New York and Philadelphia regions, and there’s a grain of truth to that. ![]() ![]() In Northampton County, 14% of workers work outside Pennsylvania, compared to 3.5% of Lehigh County workers. As a region, the majority of workers work within Pennsylvania, but over one-third of all workers, commute to areas outside of their county of residence for work.
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