Work & commute · Painesville

Work & commute in Painesville, OH

Most working residents leave Painesville for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Mentor (18%), Cleveland (11%) and Painesville (8%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

703 of 9,715 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,012 Painesville residents head out of town to work, 703 work right here, and 4,271 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Painesville.

9,012live here, work elsewhere

703live and work here

4,271work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Painesville goes to work

Mentor9.4 mi away

18%1,770

Cleveland32.4 mi away

11%1,032

Painesville5 mi away

8%775

Painesville (in town)right here

6%564

Willoughby14.5 mi away

5%530

Concord7.7 mi away

4%366

Euclid21 mi away

3%250

Wickliffe18.3 mi away

2%179

Mayfield Heights22.4 mi away

2%178

Eastlake14.5 mi away

2%148

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%3,923

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

How far

How far Painesville commutes

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

43%

29%

20%

43%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Painesville is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Painesville are

4,974 jobs are based in Painesville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Painesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Painesville

4,974 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Painesville residents hold

9,715 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+8%

Jobs based in Painesville, 2013 → 2023: 4,619 → 4,974. 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.