Work, pay and getting to work in Lewisburg
The trip to work takes 25 minutes on average; Ohio averages 23, the U.S. 26. For jobs and income Lewisburg is better than 35% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (C−). Only 8% work in Lewisburg itself; outside it, Dayton draws the most (11%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Lewisburg apart
Lewisburg’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Lewisburg’s grade up (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Lewisburg’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, Lewisburg could be anywhere from C to B−.
Goods, not services: 57% of the jobs in Lewisburg
858 jobs are based in Lewisburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lewisburg, 2014 → 2024: 775 → 858. 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 Lewisburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Lewisburg, and who commutes in
On a workday 794 residents head out to work, 67 work right here, and 791 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 (1.00 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Lewisburg work
Where Lewisburg clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
Getting to work from Lewisburg takes 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 Lewisburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 842 commuters (the 9% 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.
Where in the region Lewisburg works
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.
Getting around Lewisburg: mostly by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 927 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). 5.8% of Lewisburg households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lewisburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Lewisburg comes 3,088th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,086 | Pinegrove Township PA | 1,348 | $77K | 8.7% | 1.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,087 | Mapleton MN | 1,622 | $81K | 13.4% | 5.6% | 15% | C |
| 3,088 | Lewisburg OH | 1,734 | $75K | 21.6% | 3.9% | 8% | C |
| 3,089 | White Haven PA | 1,203 | $68K | 17.1% | 5.7% | 11% | C |
| 3,090 | Harrison Township IN | 1,895 | $88K | 15.1% | 0.3% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Lewisburg, 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 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 Lewisburg: questions
What is the median household income in Lewisburg?
$75,379 (±$5,415) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lewisburg?
21.6%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lewisburg?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lewisburg work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dayton (11%, 19 mi), Eaton (9%, 8 mi), Brookville (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lewisburg walkable?
Lewisburg is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lewisburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lewisburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lewisburg
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. 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.