Photo: Don O'Brien · CC BY 2.0Where Adamsville earns its living
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole. Hardly any work in Adamsville itself; outside it, Zanesville draws the most (11%, 10 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes, next to 23 for Ohio and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Adamsville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Adamsville on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.59 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Adamsville to work: where people go
Where Adamsville clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
Adamsville is a services town
47 jobs are based in Adamsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Adamsville, 2014 → 2024: 51 → 47. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Adamsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Adamsville, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Adamsville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 195 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Adamsville commutes
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
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 2024, 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 Adamsville: questions
What is the median household income in Adamsville?
$126,953 (±$103,358) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Adamsville?
6.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Adamsville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Adamsville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Zanesville (11%, 10 mi), Washington Township (9%, 6 mi), Cambridge (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Adamsville 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 Adamsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Adamsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.