Work & commute · St. Paris

Work & commute in St. Paris, OH

Most working residents leave St. Paris for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Urbana (10%), Johnson (8%) and Troy (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

31 of 666 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 635 St. Paris residents head out of town to work, 31 work right here, and 338 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Paris.

635live here, work elsewhere

31live and work here

338work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Paris goes to work

Urbana11.1 mi away

10%68

Johnson2.4 mi away

8%55

Troy14.8 mi away

5%35

Columbus52.7 mi away

5%34

Springfield16.4 mi away

5%32

St. Paris (in town)right here

5%31

Sidney15.5 mi away

5%30

Piqua14.8 mi away

3%23

Moorefield15.2 mi away

2%14

New Carlisle13 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%331

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

How far

How far St. Paris commutes

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

19%

46%

15%

21%

19%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Paris is a commuter town

0.55jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Paris are

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

Jobs based in St. Paris

369 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs St. Paris residents hold

666 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+18%

Jobs based in St. Paris, 2013 → 2023: 312 → 369. 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.