Photo: Photo by and ©2010 Dustin M. Ramsey (Kralizec!) · CC BY-SA 2.5Cygnet has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
4% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole. 32 jobs are based in Cygnet, and 248 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Cygnet for work; outside it, Bowling Green is the main destination (20%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Cygnet, in brief
Cygnet is a place people come home to
There are 32 jobs based in Cygnet, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cygnet has about 340 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Cygnet workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 248 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Cygnet by day
On a workday 247 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in Cygnet on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Time on the road from Cygnet: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cygnet workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 275 commuters (the 4% 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.
Where Cygnet goes to work
Where Cygnet clocks in
20% of workers
15% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Cygnet: what the 32 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cygnet, 2013 → 2023: 90 → 32. 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 Cygnet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Cygnet
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.
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 Cygnet: questions
What is the median household income in Cygnet?
$67,446 (±$10,364) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cygnet?
19.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cygnet?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cygnet work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bowling Green (20%, 9 mi), Findlay (15%, 13 mi), Toledo (7%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cygnet without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cygnet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cygnet
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.