Work & commute · Boston Heights

Work & commute in Boston Heights, OH

Most working residents leave Boston Heights for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Akron (11%), Cleveland (10%) and Hudson (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20 of 669 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 649 Boston Heights residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 1,571 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Boston Heights.

649live here, work elsewhere

20live and work here

1,571work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Boston Heights goes to work

Akron11.9 mi away

11%74

Cleveland18 mi away

10%67

Hudson3.6 mi away

6%37

Cuyahoga Falls5.4 mi away

5%33

Stow6.4 mi away

3%22

Twinsburg5.9 mi away

3%21

Boston Heights (in town)right here

3%20

Macedonia4.3 mi away

2%16

Solon9.8 mi away

2%13

Peninsula2.7 mi away

2%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%354

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Boston Heights commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

39%

46%

39%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Boston Heights is a job hub

2.38jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Boston Heights are

1,591 jobs are based in Boston Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boston Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Boston Heights

1,591 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities42%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Boston Heights residents hold

669 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+151%

Jobs based in Boston Heights, 2013 → 2023: 633 → 1,591. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.