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Work & commute in Lake Mohawk · A commuter town

98% of Lake Mohawk’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Lake Mohawk for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Canton (12%), Brown (7%) and Minerva (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Work in town
2%
13 of 680 working residents
Typical commute
17 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
31 min
More than OH (23 min)
Work from home
15%
More than OH (13%)
Jobs based here
137
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Lake Mohawk?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

12% of working residents work in Canton

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Malvern: 21 residents work here (3%)Minerva: 43 residents work here (6%)Carrollton: 26 residents work here (4%)Alliance: 14 residents work here (2%)Massillon: 23 residents work here (3%)Canton: 83 residents work here (12%)Cleveland: 13 residents work here (2%)Akron: 23 residents work here (3%)ParisMonroeBrown: 45 residents work here (7%)Jackson: 38 residents work here (6%)CantonNimishillenLake MohawkCantonBrownMinervaJacksonCarrolltonMassillonLake Mohawk
1
Canton13.6 mi away
12%83
2
Brown2.6 mi away
7%45
3
Minerva6.9 mi away
6%43
4
Jackson20.4 mi away
6%38
5
Carrollton7.9 mi away
4%26
6
Massillon19.3 mi away
3%23
7
Akron33.7 mi away
3%23
8
Malvern2.2 mi away
3%21
9
Alliance17.8 mi away
2%14
10
Cleveland61.9 mi away
2%13
Everywhere elseother towns and states
52%351
The top trips

Where Lake Mohawk clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Ohio

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
241 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Lake Mohawk31 min
Ohio23 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
15%

of Lake Mohawk workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Day and night

Lake Mohawk quiets down on a workday

On a workday 667 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere.

667live here, work elsewhere
13live and work here
124work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,400
Workday870
1,400live here− 670head out to work+ 120come in to work= 870on a workday

About 870 people are in Lake Mohawk on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.20jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Lake Mohawk commutes less than 17 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi70 miCanton: 12% · 13.6 miBrown: 7% · 2.6 miMinerva: 6% · 6.9 miJackson: 6% · 20.4 miCarrollton: 4% · 7.9 miMassillon: 3% · 19.3 miAkron: 3% · 33.7 miMalvern: 3% · 2.2 miAlliance: 2% · 17.8 miCleveland: 2% · 61.9 miCanton 12%Brown 7%Minerva 6%Jackson 6%Carrollton 4%Lake Mohawk
Lake MohawkTop destinations (size = commuters)
29%Under 10 mi197 residents
40%10–24 mi274 residents
14%25–50 mi92 residents
17%Over 50 mi117 residents

About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

What the 137 jobs in Lake Mohawk are

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

Jobs based in Lake MohawkJobs Lake Mohawk residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms23%28%
Trade, transport & utilities26%20%
Services: health, schools, offices52%53%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less19%16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month30%31%
Over $3,333 a month51%53%

Who does it

29 or younger28%21%
30 to 5453%51%
55 and older18%28%
+30%

Jobs based in Lake Mohawk, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 137. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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