Amherst is a somewhat small city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 11,881 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Amherst is the 162nd largest community in Ohio.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Amherst is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Amherst is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Amherst who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.26%), management occupations (9.99%), and sales jobs (9.94%).

Amherst is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Amherst isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.38% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small city, Amherst does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Amherst Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Amherst who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 22.14% of adults in Amherst have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Amherst in 2000 was $25,565, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,260 for a family of four.

The people who call Amherst home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Amherst is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Amherst include German, Polish, English, Italian, Irish, Hungarian, and Slovak.

The most common language spoken in Amherst is English.