Photo: Sadpine · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Amanda
The trip to work takes 27 minutes on average (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). Only 5% work in Amanda itself; outside it, Columbus draws the most (25%, 26 miles). Amanda has 458 jobs; 291 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Amanda stands out on work
Amanda’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Amanda is Columbus, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (73) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Amanda makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Amanda are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Amanda residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 291 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Amanda to work
About 16% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
A place that makes things: 40% of Amanda’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Amanda, 2013 → 2023: 299 → 458. 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 Amanda’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Amanda by day
On a workday 276 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 443 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Amanda on a workday afternoon, 25% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 daily trip into Amanda
Where Amanda clocks in
25% of workers
12% of workers
3% 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.
Time on the road from Amanda: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Amanda workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 171 commuters (the 16% 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.
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 Amanda: questions
What is the median household income in Amanda?
$44,688 (±$12,847) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Amanda?
24.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Amanda?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Amanda work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (25%, 26 mi), Lancaster (12%, 9 mi), Pickerington (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Amanda without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Amanda, from the people who make the trip.
More of Amanda
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.