Photo: Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030) · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Healthy has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Measured by household income, Mount Healthy is behind 82% of U.S. towns. 1,260 jobs are based in Mount Healthy, against 2,990 working residents. The two grades for Mount Healthy are C for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Mount Healthy, in brief
Mount Healthy and Cincinnati trade workers both ways
Cincinnati is the top workplace for Mount Healthy residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Mount Healthy come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Mount Healthy residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Mount Healthy’s working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 25 minutes, longer than the Ohio average of 23. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Mount Healthy earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mount Healthy is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #819 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Mount Healthy’s grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Healthy could be anywhere from C− to B+.
26% of working residents work in Cincinnati
Where Mount Healthy clocks in
26% of workers
4% 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.
The commute from Mount Healthy, 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.
Time on the road from Mount Healthy: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Healthy workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,695 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who commutes out of Mount Healthy, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,913 residents head out to work, 77 work right here, and 1,183 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,200 people are in Mount Healthy on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Mount Healthy
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Healthy, 2013 → 2023: 1,654 → 1,260. 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 Healthy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Mount Healthy, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Healthy is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns, #72 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,928 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 43% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 14.6% of Mount Healthy households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Mount Healthy’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Mount Healthy is 2,431st of 3,229 U.S. towns of 4,800 to 9,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Pepper Pike OH | 6,886 | $228K | 1.8% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Independence OH | 7,456 | $116K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,429 | De Soto MO | 6,527 | $53K | 13.1% | 4.4% | 13% | C |
| 2,430 | Barre VT | 8,214 | $66K | 17.3% | 4.5% | 21% | C |
| 2,431 | Mount Healthy OH | 6,917 | $55K | 21.0% | 5.9% | 3% | C |
| 2,432 | Batesburg-Leesville SC | 5,346 | $50K | 15.1% | 3.5% | 17% | C |
| 2,433 | East Lincoln Township IL | 7,589 | $59K | 20.0% | 4.1% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,229 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Mount Healthy, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Mount Healthy and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Healthy workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Healthy | – | C | A− | 25 min | $54,565 |
| Springfield Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 24 min | $73,682 |
| North College Hill | under 2% | C+ | B+ | 26 min | $64,655 |
| Finneytown | under 2% | B+ | B− | 24 min | $83,424 |
| Skyline Acres | under 2% | C | C+ | 26 min | $46,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Healthy’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 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 Healthy: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Healthy?
$54,565 (±$8,405) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Healthy?
21.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Healthy?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Healthy work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cincinnati (26%, 7 mi), Blue Ash (4%, 9 mi), West Chester Township (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Healthy walkable?
Mount Healthy is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Healthy without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. 43% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Healthy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Healthy
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.