Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0A job hub: Mount Eaton has 4.3 jobs per working resident, and 261 people come in to work
Only 3% stay in Mount Eaton for work; outside it, Paint Township is the main destination (8%, 1 miles). Employers in Mount Eaton report 263 jobs for 61 working residents. 2% of workers have no commute at all, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Mount Eaton, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 59 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 370 people are in Mount Eaton on a workday afternoon, 120% more 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 daily trip into Mount Eaton
Where Mount Eaton clocks in
7% 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.
Making and building: 52% of jobs based in Mount Eaton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Eaton, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 263. 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 Mount Eaton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 11 minutes to work from Mount Eaton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Eaton workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 119 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mount Eaton
About 23% 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 Mount Eaton: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Eaton?
$81,875 (±$7,714) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Eaton?
3.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Eaton?
11 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Eaton work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paint Township (8%, 1 mi), Akron (7%, 28 mi), Salt Creek Township (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Eaton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 23% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Eaton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Eaton
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.