Photo: Don O'Brien · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Lucasville are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns
Only 6% work in Lucasville itself; outside it, Portsmouth draws the most (20%, 9 miles). Poverty touches 8.4% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. The two grades for Lucasville are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Lucasville apart
Lucasville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Lucasville went from 324 in 2014 to 640 in 2024, +98%. The jobs ↓
The quickest commute around
Lucasville’s 20-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 26 to 43 minutes. Next door ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 560 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Lucasville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lucasville is better than 34% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lucasville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Lucasville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lucasville could be anywhere from D to B+.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Lucasville
640 jobs are based in Lucasville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lucasville, 2014 → 2024: 324 → 640. 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 Lucasville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Lucasville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 527 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 607 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 (1.14 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.
The towns that employ Lucasville’s residents
Where Lucasville clocks in
20% of workers
5% 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.
About 20 minutes to work from Lucasville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lucasville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 695 commuters (the 6% 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 it is to work from Lucasville
About 24% 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.
Most of Lucasville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lucasville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 740 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). 0.0% of Lucasville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lucasville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lucasville is 3,096th among 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 25 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,094 | Jay Township PA | 1,884 | $67K | 7.2% | 4.8% | 6% | C |
| 3,095 | Lillian AL | 1,460 | $52K | 0.6% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,096 | Lucasville OH | 1,527 | $64K | 8.4% | 0.0% | 6% | C |
| 3,097 | Westwood Shores TX | 1,466 | $46K | 2.9% | 7.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,098 | Ida Grove IA | 1,986 | $61K | 8.3% | 4.1% | 28% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Lucasville, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Lucasville and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lucasville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucasville | – | C | C+ | 20 min | $64,044 |
| Rush Township | under 3% | D | D− | 43 min | $55,925 |
| Jefferson Township | under 3% | C | D | 26 min | $68,345 |
| Morgan Township | under 3% | C+ | D− | 29 min | $73,821 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lucasville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Lucasville: questions
What is the median household income in Lucasville?
$64,044 (±$23,692) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lucasville?
8.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lucasville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lucasville work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portsmouth (20%, 9 mi), Scioto Township (5%, 8 mi), Valley Township (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lucasville walkable?
Lucasville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lucasville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lucasville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lucasville
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.