Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Leesburg
For jobs and income Leesburg is better than 37% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (C−). Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers (Ohio 13%). Only 4% work in Leesburg itself; outside it, Wilmington draws the most (14%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Leesburg and work: the main findings
The figures behind Leesburg’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Leesburg’s grade up ($77,102, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Leesburg’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Leesburg could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The 472 jobs based in Leesburg
472 jobs are based in Leesburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leesburg, 2013 → 2023: 315 → 472. 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 Leesburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Leesburg by day
On a workday 509 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 453 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Leesburg ends
Where Leesburg clocks in
14% of workers
12% of workers
4% 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.
Time on the road from Leesburg: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leesburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 595 commuters (the 5% 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.
Half of Leesburg commutes less than 22 miles
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Leesburg start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 624 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.4% of Leesburg households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Leesburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Leesburg is 2,361st among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,359 | York Township OH | 1,279 | $73K | 16.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,360 | Cranberry Township OH | 1,422 | $68K | 9.1% | 1.3% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,361 | Leesburg OH | 1,280 | $77K | 10.0% | 1.1% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,362 | Green Township IN | 1,308 | $72K | 11.8% | 1.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,363 | Ward Township IN | 1,033 | $73K | 9.6% | 2.9% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Leesburg, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Leesburg: questions
What is the median household income in Leesburg?
$77,102 (±$9,111) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leesburg?
10.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leesburg?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leesburg work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (14%, 15 mi), Hillsboro (12%, 10 mi), Columbus (4%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Leesburg walkable?
Leesburg is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leesburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leesburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leesburg
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.