Photo: Patrick Nouhailler's… · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Leipsic commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
1% of workers have no commute at all, against 15% across Delaware. 10 jobs are based in Leipsic for 63 working residents. Hardly any stay in Leipsic for work; outside it, Dover is the main destination (16%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Leipsic by day and by night
On a workday 63 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Leipsic on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Leipsic’s residents
Where Leipsic clocks in
16% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What Leipsic’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leipsic, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 10. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Leipsic’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Leipsic, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leipsic workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 88 commuters (the 1% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Leipsic
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Leipsic: questions
What is the median household income in Leipsic?
$44,886 (±$40,278) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leipsic?
3.7%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leipsic?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leipsic work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (16%, 6 mi), Newark (6%, 33 mi), Milford (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Leipsic without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leipsic, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leipsic
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.