Work & commute · Lemon

Work & commute in Lemon, OH

Most working residents leave Lemon for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Monroe (8%), Cincinnati (8%) and West Chester (8%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

595 of 7,543 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,948 Lemon residents head out of town to work, 595 work right here, and 7,632 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lemon.

6,948live here, work elsewhere

595live and work here

7,632work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lemon goes to work

Monroe1.8 mi away

8%611

Cincinnati22.1 mi away

8%575

West Chester7.7 mi away

8%572

Middletown4.1 mi away

7%521

Mason8 mi away

4%291

Fairfield11.3 mi away

4%287

Hamilton9.9 mi away

4%275

Blue Ash14 mi away

3%231

Liberty3.5 mi away

3%222

Sharonville11.6 mi away

3%203

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%3,755

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

How far

How far Lemon commutes

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

40%

43%

11%

40%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lemon is balanced between jobs and homes

1.09jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lemon are

8,227 jobs are based in Lemon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lemon’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lemon

8,227 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities48%

Services (health, schools, offices…)30%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Lemon residents hold

7,543 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+21%

Jobs based in Lemon, 2013 → 2023: 6,815 → 8,227. 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.