Work & commute · St. Albans

Work & commute in St. Albans, OH

Most working residents leave St. Albans for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Columbus (31%), Newark (8%) and New Albany (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

59 of 1,192 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,133 St. Albans residents head out of town to work, 59 work right here, and 533 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Albans.

1,133live here, work elsewhere

59live and work here

533work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Albans goes to work

Columbus20.5 mi away

31%365

Newark10.3 mi away

8%96

New Albany8.2 mi away

6%71

St. Albans (in town)right here

4%46

Gahanna14.1 mi away

3%37

Westerville15.9 mi away

3%36

Pataskala6.8 mi away

2%28

Johnstown6.1 mi away

2%22

Heath10.1 mi away

2%18

Granville6.2 mi away

1%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%456

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

How far

How far St. Albans commutes

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

23%

54%

14%

23%Under 10 mi

54%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Albans is a commuter town

0.50jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Albans are

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

Jobs based in St. Albans

592 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs St. Albans residents hold

1,192 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+41%

Jobs based in St. Albans, 2013 → 2023: 419 → 592. 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.