Flat Rock has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
0% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Flat Rock has 39 jobs, and 102 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Flat Rock itself; outside it, Tiffin draws the most (15%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Flat Rock
On a workday 102 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Flat Rock on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Flat Rock goes to work
Where Flat Rock clocks in
15% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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 Flat Rock, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flat Rock, 2014 → 2024: 68 → 39. 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 Flat Rock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Flat Rock’s commute takes about 85 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 27.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flat Rock workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 54 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Flat Rock’s commute, mile by mile
About 24% 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 Flat Rock: questions
What is the poverty rate in Flat Rock?
24.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flat Rock?
85 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flat Rock work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tiffin (15%, 19 mi), Bellevue (9%, 3 mi), Columbus (6%, 87 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Flat Rock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flat Rock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flat Rock
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.