 Already by 1960, out of 52 members of the workforce, 41 had to commute to work.Before the troop drilling ground was laid out, Unterjeckenbach's location with regard to transport was considerably more favourable than it is now.The Meisenheim-Idar road was crossed a few kilometres east of the village by the road that led from the Niederreidenbacher Hof (on the Nahe) directly to Lauterecken, and which has since, after considerable expansion work, been raised to "Bundesstraße" (B 270).