Photo: TheLeaper · CC BY-SA 4.0Austinburg has 2.9 jobs for every working resident: 557 people commute in to work
3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Austinburg has 567 jobs for 197 working residents. Only 5% work in Austinburg itself; outside it, Ashtabula draws the most (9%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Austinburg, and who commutes in
On a workday 187 residents head out to work and 10 work right here.
About 730 people are in Austinburg on a workday afternoon, 103% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Austinburg
Where Austinburg clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
In Austinburg, 47% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Austinburg, 2014 → 2024: 651 → 567. 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 Austinburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Austinburg
of Austinburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 3% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Austinburg
About 17% 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 Austinburg: questions
What is the poverty rate in Austinburg?
13.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Austinburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashtabula (9%, 8 mi), Geneva (8%, 5 mi), Cleveland (5%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Austinburg without a car?
19% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Austinburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Austinburg
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.