Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Prospect commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
116 jobs are based in Prospect, against 458 working residents. Prospect grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. For 3% of workers, the job is at home; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Prospect in brief
Prospect is a place people come home to
There are 116 jobs based in Prospect, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Prospect has about 710 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Prospect workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Prospect workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 458 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Prospect: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Prospect is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Prospect’s grade up (ahead of 56% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Prospect’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, Prospect could be anywhere from C to B+.
Prospect on a workday afternoon
On a workday 454 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Prospect on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
From Prospect, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prospect workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 commuters (the 3% 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.
11% of working residents work in Delaware
Where Prospect clocks in
11% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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.
A place that makes things: 29% of Prospect’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prospect, 2013 → 2023: 143 → 116. 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 Prospect’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Prospect works
About 20% 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.
For most of Prospect, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Prospect is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% 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 472 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). 2.4% of Prospect households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Prospect’s commuters take a bus or train.
Prospect next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 1,154th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 35 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Granville South OH | 1,146 | $131K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,152 | Middlesex NY | 1,349 | $76K | 5.8% | 2.2% | 5% | B− |
| 1,153 | Georgetown WI | 1,034 | $77K | 5.1% | 7.2% | 1% | B− |
| 1,154 | Prospect OH | 1,056 | $71K | 11.5% | 5.9% | 1% | B− |
| 1,155 | Clay Township IN | 1,295 | $71K | 6.7% | 1.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,156 | Jackson Township OH | 1,147 | $81K | 13.3% | 10.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Prospect, 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 Prospect: questions
What is the median household income in Prospect?
$70,833 (±$14,297) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prospect?
11.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prospect?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prospect work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delaware (11%, 13 mi), Columbus (11%, 34 mi), Marion (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Prospect walkable?
Prospect is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Prospect without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Prospect, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prospect
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.