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Work & commute in Lucasville · Balanced

96% of Lucasville’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Lucasville for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Portsmouth (19%), Scioto (6%) and Valley (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Work in town
4%
27 of 602 working residents
Typical commute
13 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
20 min
Less than OH (23 min)
Work from home
6%
Less than OH (13%)
Jobs based here
476
Balanced

What kind of work town is Lucasville?

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

★ What stands out · The jobs

What the 476 jobs in Lucasville are

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

Jobs based in LucasvilleJobs Lucasville residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms1%17%
Trade, transport & utilities22%18%
Services: health, schools, offices76%65%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less29%12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month31%32%
Over $3,333 a month39%56%

Who does it

29 or younger28%21%
30 to 5450%55%
55 and older22%23%
+38%

Jobs based in Lucasville, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 476. 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 575 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 449 people come in from elsewhere.

575live here, work elsewhere
27live and work here
449work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,500
Workday1,400
1,500live here− 580head out to work+ 450come in to work= 1,400on 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?
0.79jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).

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

The commute map

19% of working residents work in Portsmouth

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

New Boston: 10 residents work here (2%)Waverly: 20 residents work here (3%)Portsmouth: 117 residents work here (19%)Columbus: 15 residents work here (2%)Cincinnati: 11 residents work here (2%)UnionJeffersonMorganHarrisonScioto: 36 residents work here (6%)MadisonClayRushValley: 34 residents work here (6%)LucasvilleWheelersburg: 9 residents work here (1%)Rosemount: 9 residents work here (1%)PortsmouthSciotoValleyWaverlyColumbusCincinnatiLucasville
1
Portsmouth8.6 mi away
19%117
2
Scioto8.3 mi away
6%36
3
Valley1.7 mi away
6%34
4
Lucasville (in town)right here
4%27
5
Waverly17.4 mi away
3%20
6
Columbus76.8 mi away
2%15
7
Cincinnati83.4 mi away
2%11
8
New Boston9 mi away
2%10
9
Wheelersburg12.1 mi away
1%9
10
Rosemount7 mi away
1%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
52%314
The top trips

Where Lucasville clocks in

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

How far

Half of Lucasville commutes less than 13 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 miPortsmouth: 19% · 8.6 miScioto: 6% · 8.3 miValley: 6% · 1.7 miWaverly: 3% · 17.4 miColumbus: 2% · 76.8 miCincinnati: 2% · 83.4 miNew Boston: 2% · 9 miWheelersburg: 1% · 12.1 miRosemount: 1% · 7 miPortsmouth 19%Scioto 6%Valley 6%Waverly 3%Columbus 2%Lucasville
LucasvilleTop destinations (size = commuters)
35%Under 10 mi206 residents
24%10–24 mi141 residents
10%25–50 mi62 residents
31%Over 50 mi182 residents

About 31% 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.

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
151 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Lucasville20 min
Ohio23 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
6%

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

About 1 in 10
Next door

Lucasville and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Valley (6%). Darker towns draw more of Lucasville’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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