Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Good Hope commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Ohio has 13%. Good Hope has 7 jobs; 99 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Good Hope; the top destination outside it is Washington Court House (15%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Good Hope
On a workday 99 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Good Hope on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
The towns that employ Good Hope’s residents
Where Good Hope clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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.
In Good Hope, 43% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Good Hope, 2014 → 2024: 4 → 7. 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 Good Hope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Good Hope
of Good Hope workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 88 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Good Hope
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 Good Hope: questions
What is the poverty rate in Good Hope?
7.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Good Hope work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington Court House (15%, 7 mi), Greenfield (5%, 7 mi), Wilmington (5%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Good Hope without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Good Hope, from the people who make the trip.
More of Good Hope
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.