Work & commute · Symmes

Work & commute in Symmes, OH

Most working residents leave Symmes for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Cincinnati (21%), Blue Ash (7%) and Mason (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

250 of 6,805 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,555 Symmes residents head out of town to work, 250 work right here, and 8,615 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Symmes.

6,555live here, work elsewhere

250live and work here

8,615work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Symmes goes to work

Cincinnati13.7 mi away

21%1,461

Blue Ash4.5 mi away

7%481

Mason6.7 mi away

5%339

Deerfield4.4 mi away

4%298

West Chester7.9 mi away

4%272

Sharonville5.6 mi away

3%235

Symmes (in town)right here

3%184

Montgomery2.4 mi away

2%166

Kenwood5.4 mi away

2%160

Loveland2 mi away

2%155

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%3,054

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

How far

How far Symmes commutes

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

50%

36%

10%

50%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Symmes is balanced between jobs and homes

1.30jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Symmes are

8,865 jobs are based in Symmes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Symmes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Symmes

8,865 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Symmes residents hold

6,805 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+21%

Jobs based in Symmes, 2013 → 2023: 7,309 → 8,865. 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.