Every week, 7,265 employees of the City of Cleveland leave their homes to attempt, in their own individual way, to make the city a better place to live.
Yet, the majority of those workers—some 53 percent of them—opt not to live in the city for which they work.
While 3,452 employees sport Cleveland addresses, the remaining 3,813 of them live in about 200 other municipalities around Northeast Ohio and beyond, according to data provided by the city in a public records request.
Cities chosen otherwise were, as expected, inner-ring suburbs with a close commute and generally affordable real estate markets: Euclid (277), Parma (230), Garfield Heights (153), Lakewood (144), Cleveland Heights (134) and North Ridgeville (131).
[content-1]But others choose more far-flung locales and deal with a more strenuous commute: one, an employee in Public Safety, lives a two-and-a-half-hour drive away in Alexandria, near Columbus. Another, a manager in the Finance Department, lives in Tipp City, near Dayton; and one, a special assistant to the mayor, apparently lives across state lines in Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania.