Work & commute · Sharon Center

Work & commute in Sharon Center, OH

Most working residents leave Sharon Center for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Akron (15%), Cleveland (9%) and Medina (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10 of 411 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 401 Sharon Center residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 1,305 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sharon Center.

401live here, work elsewhere

10live and work here

1,305work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sharon Center goes to work

Akron11.4 mi away

15%61

Cleveland26.6 mi away

9%36

Medina7.3 mi away

5%20

Wadsworth4.8 mi away

4%15

Granger5.1 mi away

3%12

Fairlawn6.6 mi away

3%11

Copley5.6 mi away

3%11

Cuyahoga Falls11.4 mi away

2%10

Sharon Center (in town)right here

2%10

Orrville17.2 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%216

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

How far

How far Sharon Center commutes

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

31%

40%

17%

12%

31%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sharon Center is a job hub

3.20jobs per working resident

A job hub

3.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Sharon Center are

1,315 jobs are based in Sharon Center. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sharon Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sharon Center

1,315 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)76%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)19%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Sharon Center residents hold

411 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+21%

Jobs based in Sharon Center, 2013 → 2023: 1,089 → 1,315. 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.