Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Grover Hill commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Ohio as a whole has 13%. There are 38 jobs in Grover Hill, and 173 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Grover Hill for work; outside it, Paulding is the main destination (9%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Grover Hill, and who commutes in
On a workday 172 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Grover Hill on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 Grover Hill’s residents
Where Grover Hill clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Grover Hill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grover Hill, 2014 → 2024: 42 → 38. 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 Grover Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes to work from Grover Hill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grover Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 150 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 Grover Hill
About 17% 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 Grover Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Grover Hill?
$71,944 (±$15,481) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grover Hill?
10.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grover Hill?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grover Hill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paulding (9%, 10 mi), Van Wert (8%, 12 mi), Defiance (8%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Grover Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grover Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grover Hill
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.