Photo: User:OHWiki · Public domainHousehold incomes in Bucyrus are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 14.9% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). Bucyrus grades C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. For 5% of workers, the job is at home; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bucyrus stands out on work
Bucyrus’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bucyrus is Columbus, 57 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (465) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Bucyrus trades workers with the towns around it
Bucyrus has about as many jobs (4,942) as working residents (5,153), but they are mostly different people: 3,743 residents leave for work each day while 3,532 people come in. Only 29% of the jobs in Bucyrus are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
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.
What’s behind Bucyrus’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bucyrus is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #887 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Bucyrus’ grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,349, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bucyrus could be anywhere from D to C+.
How many miles Bucyrus commutes
About 25% 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.
How many people are in Bucyrus by day
On a workday 3,743 residents head out to work, 1,410 work right here, and 3,532 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 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.
9% of working residents work in Columbus
Where Bucyrus clocks in
9% of workers
4% 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.
What work there is in Bucyrus: 4,942 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bucyrus, 2013 → 2023: 6,306 → 4,942. 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 Bucyrus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Bucyrus: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bucyrus workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,920 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Bucyrus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bucyrus is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #136 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Bucyrus 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 5,183 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). 6.9% of Bucyrus households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Bucyrus’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bucyrus is 2,312th of 2,695 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| 4 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 5 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,310 | Florida City FL | 13,576 | $47K | 32.4% | 5.3% | 4% | C− |
| 2,311 | Cheviot OH | 8,623 | $53K | 22.6% | 8.5% | 2% | C− |
| 2,312 | Bucyrus OH | 11,631 | $54K | 14.9% | 6.2% | 27% | C− |
| 2,313 | Fort Irwin CA | 8,419 | $76K | 8.7% | 12.3% | 13% | C− |
| 2,314 | Wilkinsburg PA | 13,602 | $46K | 20.4% | 11.2% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Bucyrus, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Bucyrus: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bucyrus workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucyrus | – | C− | A− | 21 min | $54,349 |
| Bucyrus Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Whetstone Township | under 2% | B− | D− | 15 min | $66,758 |
| Holmes Township | under 2% | B− | D | 22 min | $70,768 |
| Liberty Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 25 min | $77,031 |
Same-state neighbors only. Bucyrus Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bucyrus’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Bucyrus: questions
What is the median household income in Bucyrus?
$54,349 (±$2,055) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bucyrus?
14.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bucyrus?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bucyrus work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (9%, 57 mi), Upper Sandusky (4%, 16 mi), Galion (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bucyrus walkable?
Bucyrus is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bucyrus without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bucyrus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bucyrus
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.