Work & commute · Wills

Work & commute in Wills, OH

Most working residents leave Wills for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Cambridge (27%), Jackson (6%) and Cambridge (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

29 of 650 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 621 Wills residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 287 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wills.

621live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

287work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wills goes to work

Cambridge10.2 mi away

27%178

Jackson10.3 mi away

6%42

Cambridge10 mi away

4%27

Wills (in town)right here

4%27

Byesville8.9 mi away

3%20

Zanesville33.1 mi away

3%20

Columbus84.3 mi away

2%15

Center5.7 mi away

2%13

New Philadelphia31.8 mi away

1%9

Akron73.1 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%290

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

How far

How far Wills commutes

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

40%

20%

16%

24%

40%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wills is a commuter town

0.49jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wills are

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

Jobs based in Wills

316 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Wills residents hold

650 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+28%

Jobs based in Wills, 2013 → 2023: 246 → 316. 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.