Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Hayesville works elsewhere
Hayesville has 104 jobs; 191 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Hayesville; the top destination outside it is Ashland (23%, 7 miles). 2% 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
Who leaves Hayesville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 191 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Hayesville on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Commuting out of Hayesville: the destinations
Where Hayesville clocks in
23% of workers
8% 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 Hayesville, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hayesville, 2013 → 2023: 175 → 104. 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 Hayesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Hayesville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hayesville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 248 commuters (the 2% 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.
How far Hayesville’s workers travel
About 18% 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 Hayesville: questions
What is the median household income in Hayesville?
$76,250 (±$50,067) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hayesville?
5.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hayesville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hayesville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashland (23%, 7 mi), Mansfield (8%, 14 mi), Loudonville (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hayesville 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 Hayesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hayesville
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.