Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Kirby commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Kirby has 19 jobs for 42 working residents. Hardly any work in Kirby itself; outside it, Upper Sandusky draws the most (21%, 8 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kirby on a workday afternoon
On a workday 42 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 93 people are in Kirby 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.
The towns that employ Kirby’s residents
Where Kirby clocks in
21% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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 Kirby’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kirby, 2013 → 2023: 64 → 19. 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 Kirby’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 63 minutes each way for Kirby’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 20.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kirby workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 55 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.
The commute from Kirby, by distance
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 Kirby: questions
What is the median household income in Kirby?
$65,625 (±$51,959) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kirby?
19.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kirby?
63 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kirby work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Upper Sandusky (21%, 8 mi), Carey (10%, 9 mi), Kenton (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kirby without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kirby, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kirby
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.