Cleveland

City Commute Profile

Cleveland, OH

Where Cleveland’s 147,400 resident workers go each day — 41.3% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Parma.

OhioLODES 2023 data
65
Commute Score

65 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Cleveland at a glance
Employed Residents
147,400
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
10.8mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
41.3%
Share working within the area
Work from home
11.5%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Parma
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Cleveland proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Cleveland commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Cleveland

147,400 commutes, one dot at a time

Cleveland

Where 147,400 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Cleveland, by worker count.

1Cleveland0.0 mi60,877
2Parma6.9 mi3,444
3Euclid11.0 mi3,161
4Independence7.1 mi2,732
5Solon13.4 mi2,635
6Westlake13.6 mi2,391
7Columbus123.9 mi2,369
8Lakewood6.8 mi2,337

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Cleveland.

1Cleveland0.0 mi60,877
2Parma6.9 mi10,828
3Lakewood6.8 mi9,917
4Cleveland Heights5.9 mi7,962
5Euclid11.0 mi7,081
6Strongsville14.3 mi5,641
7Shaker Heights6.1 mi5,358
8Westlake13.6 mi4,743

Top industries

The sectors that employ Cleveland’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance30.9%
FIFinance and Insurance9.3%
EDEducational Services8.3%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.1%
MFManufacturing6.6%
AFAccommodation and Food Services5.9%
PAPublic Administration4.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services4.0%
RTRetail Trade3.3%

Cleveland city profile

Who lives in Cleveland — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
366,097
Median age
36.3yrs
Median household income
$40,801
Median home value
$102,000
Median gross rent
$945/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
22.4%
Poverty rate
30.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Cleveland

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

10 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps82%
5 Gbps82%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Cleveland

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).