Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJobs and the daily commute in Botkins
5% of workers have no commute at all, against 13% across Ohio. Botkins grades B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 7% work in Botkins itself; outside it, Sidney draws the most (17%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Botkins apart on work
Botkins is where the jobs are
Botkins has 881 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Botkins makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Botkins are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Botkins residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 38%. 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 561 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Botkins gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Botkins is better than 70% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Botkins’ grade up (3.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Botkins’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Botkins could be anywhere from B− to A−.
How many people are in Botkins by day
On a workday 520 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 840 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Botkins on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 55% of the jobs in Botkins
881 jobs are based in Botkins.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Botkins, 2013 → 2023: 828 → 881. 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 Botkins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Botkins’s workers come from
Where Botkins clocks in
17% of workers
6% 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.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Botkins workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 469 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Botkins
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Botkins start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Botkins is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Botkins near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 495 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Botkins households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Botkins’ commuters take a bus or train.
Botkins is 629th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 627 | Jefferson WI | 1,289 | $92K | 2.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 628 | Millersport OH | 1,008 | $81K | 8.8% | 14.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 629 | Botkins OH | 1,133 | $80K | 3.7% | 2.9% | 7% | B+ |
| 630 | Nescopeck Township PA | 1,124 | $86K | 5.2% | 6.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 631 | Black Brook WI | 1,471 | $103K | 3.8% | 3.3% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Botkins, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Botkins: questions
What is the median household income in Botkins?
$80,000 (±$16,432) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Botkins?
3.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Botkins?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Botkins work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sidney (17%, 11 mi), Anna (6%, 4 mi), Minster (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Botkins walkable?
Botkins is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Botkins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Botkins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Botkins
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.