Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0Flushing has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Flushing has 78 jobs, against 280 working residents. Only 1% stay in Flushing for work; outside it, Wheeling is the main destination (13%, 20 miles). 4% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Flushing in brief
Flushing is a place people come home to
There are 78 jobs based in Flushing, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Flushing has about 600 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Flushing workers cross into West Virginia
20% of Flushing workers work outside Ohio, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, Wheeling (13%) is one of the top workplaces. The commute map ↓
Few Flushing 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 280 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Flushing
On a workday 277 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 75 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Flushing on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Flushing goes to work
Where Flushing clocks in
13% 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.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Flushing
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flushing workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 501 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.
In Flushing, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flushing, 2013 → 2023: 69 → 78. 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 Flushing’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Flushing
About 27% 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 Flushing: questions
What is the median household income in Flushing?
$66,850 (±$5,280) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flushing?
16.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flushing?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flushing work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wheeling (13%, 20 mi), St. Clairsville (11%, 10 mi), Richland Township (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Flushing 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 Flushing, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flushing
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.