Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Sardinia has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Sardinia D; getting around on foot earns it C−. Employers in Sardinia report 139 jobs for 445 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Sardinia stands out on work
Sardinia’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Sardinia is Cincinnati, 39 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (38) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Sardinia workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 445 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Sardinia’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Sardinia is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Sardinia’s grade up (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (25.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Sardinia’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, Sardinia could be anywhere from D− to C.
How far it is to work from Sardinia
About 17% 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.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Sardinia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sardinia workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 335 commuters (the 11% 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.
Sardinia on a workday afternoon
On a workday 442 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Sardinia on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
9% of working residents work in Cincinnati
Where Sardinia clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Sardinia: what the 139 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sardinia, 2013 → 2023: 251 → 139. 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 Sardinia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Sardinia walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sardinia is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 378 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). 10.4% of Sardinia households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sardinia’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Sardinia is 3,165th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,163 | Martinsville IL | 1,083 | $62K | 23.4% | 4.6% | 7% | D |
| 3,164 | Brocton NY | 1,310 | $59K | 24.6% | 5.8% | 6% | D |
| 3,165 | Sardinia OH | 1,101 | $58K | 25.9% | 3.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,166 | Meeker OK | 1,031 | $41K | 25.2% | 4.1% | 5% | D |
| 3,167 | Montello WI | 1,447 | $56K | 20.0% | 3.7% | 18% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Sardinia, 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 Sardinia: questions
What is the median household income in Sardinia?
$58,438 (±$29,681) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sardinia?
25.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sardinia?
31 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sardinia work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cincinnati (9%, 39 mi), Georgetown (7%, 11 mi), Mount Orab (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sardinia walkable?
Sardinia is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sardinia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sardinia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sardinia
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.