Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Peebles works elsewhere
279 jobs are based in Peebles, against 553 working residents. The two grades for Peebles are D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 8% work in Peebles; the top destination outside it is West Union (8%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Peebles
Peebles workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 553 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Peebles’ grade
On income, poverty and job access, Peebles is better than 6% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Peebles’ grade up ($62,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (14.4%) is left out: Peebles’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, Peebles could be anywhere from D− to C−.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Peebles
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Peebles workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 739 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.
Half of Peebles commutes less than 24 miles
About 32% 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.
In and out of Peebles on a workday
On a workday 510 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 236 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Peebles on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
The places Peebles commutes to
Where Peebles clocks in
8% 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.
What Peebles’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peebles, 2013 → 2023: 366 → 279. 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 Peebles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Peebles walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Peebles is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Peebles near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 787 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). 3.7% of Peebles households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Peebles’ commuters take a bus or train.
Peebles next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,497 | Crosby MN | 2,330 | $42K | 16.9% | 5.3% | 13% | D |
| 5,498 | Bernie MO | 1,828 | $48K | 24.1% | 2.7% | 10% | D |
| 5,499 | Peebles OH | 1,777 | $63K | 24.2% | 14.4% | 8% | D |
| 5,500 | Panama OK | 1,314 | $47K | 29.0% | 6.2% | 2% | D |
| 5,501 | Emporium PA | 1,781 | $43K | 14.6% | 8.2% | 37% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Peebles, 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 Peebles: questions
What is the median household income in Peebles?
$62,500 (±$10,758) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Peebles?
24.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Peebles?
32 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Peebles work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Union (8%, 13 mi), Meigs Township (5%, 4 mi), Franklin Township (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Peebles walkable?
Peebles is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Peebles without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Peebles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peebles
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.