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Work & commute in Lincoln Heights · A commuter town

98% of Lincoln Heights’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Lincoln Heights for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Cincinnati (21%), Blue Ash (5%) and Springdale (5%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Work in town
2%
18 of 1,096 working residents
Typical commute
7 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
20 min
Less than OH (23 min)
Work from home
3%
Less than OH (13%)
Jobs based here
809
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Lincoln Heights?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

21% of working residents work in Cincinnati

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

Lincoln HeightsLocklandWoodlawn: 46 residents work here (4%)WyomingEvendale: 23 residents work here (2%)Springdale: 56 residents work here (5%)Blue Ash: 58 residents work here (5%)Sharonville: 54 residents work here (5%)Fairfield: 35 residents work here (3%)Mason: 34 residents work here (3%)HamiltonMiddletownColumbus: 30 residents work here (3%)Cincinnati: 225 residents work here (21%)LibertyHamiltonMiamiWest Chester: 41 residents work here (4%)FinneytownCincinnatiBlue AshSpringdaleSharonvilleWoodlawnWest ChesterLincoln Heights
1
Cincinnati7.6 mi away
21%225
2
Blue Ash3.8 mi away
5%58
3
Springdale3.4 mi away
5%56
4
Sharonville3.7 mi away
5%54
5
Woodlawn1.1 mi away
4%46
6
West Chester6.9 mi away
4%41
7
Fairfield7.6 mi away
3%35
8
Mason11.8 mi away
3%34
9
Columbus93.6 mi away
3%30
10
Evendale1.7 mi away
2%23
Everywhere elseother towns and states
45%494
The top trips

Where Lincoln Heights clocks in

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

The jobs

Lincoln Heights makes things: 41% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in Lincoln HeightsJobs Lincoln Heights residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms41%14%
Trade, transport & utilities9%19%
Services: health, schools, offices50%67%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less9%21%
$1,251–$3,333 a month20%39%
Over $3,333 a month71%39%

Who does it

29 or younger16%26%
30 to 5453%50%
55 and older31%24%
−12%

Jobs based in Lincoln Heights, 2013 → 2023: 921 → 809. 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.

Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,078 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 791 people come in from elsewhere.

1,078live here, work elsewhere
18live and work here
791work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night3,100
Workday2,800
3,100live here− 1,100head out to work+ 790come in to work= 2,800on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.74jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.74 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 Lincoln Heights commutes less than 7 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 mi80 miCincinnati: 21% · 7.6 miBlue Ash: 5% · 3.8 miSpringdale: 5% · 3.4 miSharonville: 5% · 3.7 miWoodlawn: 4% · 1.1 miWest Chester: 4% · 6.9 miFairfield: 3% · 7.6 miMason: 3% · 11.8 miColumbus: 3% · 93.6 miEvendale: 2% · 1.7 miCincinnati 21%Blue Ash 5%Springdale 5%Sharonville 5%Woodlawn 4%Lincoln Heights
Lincoln HeightsTop destinations (size = commuters)
68%Under 10 mi739 residents
18%10–24 mi190 residents
3%25–50 mi34 residents
11%Over 50 mi121 residents

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

Time on the road

About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio

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

A year of commuting
155 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Lincoln Heights20 min
Ohio23 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
3%

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

About 0 in 10

How Lincoln Heights ranks on commute time →

Next door

Lincoln Heights and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Woodlawn (4%). Darker towns draw more of Lincoln Heights’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

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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