Work & commute · Botkins

Work & commute in Botkins, OH

Most working residents leave Botkins for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Sidney (17%), Anna (6%) and Minster (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41 of 561 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 520 Botkins residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 840 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Botkins.

520live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

840work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Botkins goes to work

Sidney11.3 mi away

17%96

Botkins (in town)right here

7%41

Anna3.9 mi away

6%36

Minster11.2 mi away

5%26

Wapakoneta7.8 mi away

4%25

Franklin6.9 mi away

4%22

New Bremen10.5 mi away

4%21

Jackson Center7.1 mi away

3%17

St. Marys13 mi away

2%11

Piqua21.4 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%255

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

How far

How far Botkins commutes

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

30%

43%

10%

17%

30%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Botkins is a job hub

1.57jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Botkins are

881 jobs are based in Botkins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Botkins’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Botkins

881 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)55%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)29%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Botkins residents hold

561 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)38%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+6%

Jobs based in Botkins, 2013 → 2023: 828 → 881. 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.