Photo: Photo by and ©2008 Dustin M. Ramsey (Kralizec!) · CC BY-SA 2.5Bascom has 0.8 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working residents average 17 minutes each way (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). Only 2% work in Bascom; the top destination outside it is Tiffin (15%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bascom quiets down on a workday
On a workday 177 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Bascom on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Tiffin
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Bascom clocks in
15% of workers
10% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Bascom makes things: 51% of its jobs are in goods
142 jobs are based in Bascom. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bascom’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bascom, 2013 → 2023: 253 → 142. 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.
About 17 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bascom workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 155 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Bascom commutes less than 18 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 22% 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.
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 Bascom: questions
What is the median household income in Bascom?
$90,592 (±$44,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bascom?
0.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bascom?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bascom work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tiffin (15%, 6 mi), Findlay (10%, 19 mi), Fostoria (9%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bascom 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 Bascom, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bascom
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.