Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Sherwood commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Sherwood has 51 jobs for 359 working residents. Only 1% work in Sherwood; the top destination outside it is Defiance (20%, 10 miles). At home: 7% of workers have no commute at all (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Sherwood: the gist
Sherwood is a place people come home to
There are 51 jobs based in Sherwood, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sherwood has about 510 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Sherwood and Defiance trade workers both ways
Defiance is the top workplace for Sherwood residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Sherwood come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 359 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who commutes out of Sherwood, and who commutes in
On a workday 355 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 510 people are in Sherwood on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Sherwood’s working residents head each day
Where Sherwood clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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 Sherwood: what the 51 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sherwood, 2014 → 2024: 96 → 51. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sherwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Sherwood, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sherwood workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 282 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from Sherwood
About 19% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Sherwood: questions
What is the median household income in Sherwood?
$84,167 (±$24,724) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sherwood?
10.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sherwood?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sherwood work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Defiance (20%, 10 mi), Bryan (7%, 12 mi), Hicksville (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Sherwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sherwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sherwood
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.