Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Sinking Spring commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
There are 3 jobs in Sinking Spring, against 33 working residents. Hardly any work in Sinking Spring itself; outside it, Hillsboro draws the most (15%, 15 miles). 6% of workers have no commute at all; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Sinking Spring by day
On a workday 33 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 90 people are in Sinking Spring 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.
The towns that employ Sinking Spring’s residents
Where Sinking Spring clocks in
15% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Sinking Spring
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sinking Spring, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 3. 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 Sinking Spring’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 38 minutes each way, longer than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sinking Spring workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 108 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.
How far it is to work from Sinking Spring
About 47% 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.
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 Sinking Spring: questions
What is the median household income in Sinking Spring?
$108,090 (±$51,903) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sinking Spring?
11.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sinking Spring?
38 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sinking Spring work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hillsboro (15%, 15 mi), Seaman (6%, 14 mi), Jeffersonville (3%, 135 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sinking Spring without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sinking Spring, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sinking Spring
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.