Work & commute · Piketon

Work & commute in Piketon, OH

Most working residents leave Piketon for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Waverly (18%), Columbus (7%) and Chillicothe (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

72 of 782 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 710 Piketon residents head out of town to work, 72 work right here, and 874 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Piketon.

710live here, work elsewhere

72live and work here

874work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Piketon goes to work

Waverly4.2 mi away

18%138

Piketon (in town)right here

9%72

Columbus63.5 mi away

7%56

Chillicothe19 mi away

6%46

Green25.6 mi away

5%40

Scioto4.9 mi away

5%37

Portsmouth21.7 mi away

3%25

Newton5.3 mi away

3%25

Seal1.5 mi away

3%23

Union24.9 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%302

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

How far

How far Piketon commutes

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

42%

26%

25%

42%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Piketon is balanced between jobs and homes

1.21jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Piketon are

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

Jobs based in Piketon

946 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Piketon residents hold

782 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−21%

Jobs based in Piketon, 2013 → 2023: 1,197 → 946. 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.