Work & commute · Wickliffe

Work & commute in Wickliffe, OH

Most working residents leave Wickliffe for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Cleveland (18%), Mentor (9%) and Willoughby (7%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

426 of 6,176 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,750 Wickliffe residents head out of town to work, 426 work right here, and 6,634 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wickliffe.

5,750live here, work elsewhere

426live and work here

6,634work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wickliffe goes to work

Cleveland14.1 mi away

18%1,135

Mentor8.9 mi away

9%543

Willoughby3.9 mi away

7%460

Wickliffe (in town)right here

7%426

Euclid2.9 mi away

4%271

Eastlake3.9 mi away

3%185

Mayfield Heights6.2 mi away

2%148

Solon15.3 mi away

2%136

Beachwood9.2 mi away

2%135

Painesville13.4 mi away

2%113

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%2,624

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

How far

How far Wickliffe commutes

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

46%

39%

46%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wickliffe is balanced between jobs and homes

1.14jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Wickliffe are

7,060 jobs are based in Wickliffe. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wickliffe’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Wickliffe

7,060 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Wickliffe residents hold

6,176 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+1%

Jobs based in Wickliffe, 2013 → 2023: 6,989 → 7,060. 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.