Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Hamersville works elsewhere
At home: 7% of workers have no commute at all (Ohio 13%). Hamersville has 93 jobs; 207 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Hamersville itself; outside it, Mount Orab draws the most (8%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hamersville at work: what stands out
The daily trip from Hamersville: about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hamersville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 390 commuters (the 7% 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.
Hamersville by day and by night
On a workday 207 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 93 people come in from elsewhere.
About 390 people are in Hamersville on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Commuting out of Hamersville: the destinations
Where Hamersville clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
What Hamersville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hamersville, 2014 → 2024: 105 → 93. 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 Hamersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Hamersville’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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 Hamersville: questions
What is the median household income in Hamersville?
$66,554 (±$6,589) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hamersville?
11.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hamersville?
36 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hamersville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Orab (8%, 8 mi), Cincinnati (7%, 32 mi), Columbus (5%, 91 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hamersville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hamersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hamersville
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.