Photo: Nyttend · Public domainAnsonia has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Ansonia has 130 jobs, against 504 working residents. Jobs and income earn Ansonia C−; getting around on foot earns it C+. 1% 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
Jobs and commuting in Ansonia: the gist
Ansonia is a place people come home to
There are 130 jobs based in Ansonia, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ansonia has about 770 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Ansonia workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 504 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Ansonia earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ansonia is better than 20% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ansonia’s grade.
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Ansonia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ansonia could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who leaves Ansonia for work, and who comes in
On a workday 494 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 120 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Ansonia on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 daily trip from Ansonia: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ansonia workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 525 commuters (the 1% 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.
18% of working residents work in Greenville
Where Ansonia clocks in
18% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
What Ansonia’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ansonia, 2013 → 2023: 63 → 130. 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 Ansonia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ansonia
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Ansonia is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ansonia is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ansonia near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 529 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Ansonia households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ansonia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Ansonia ranks 2,566th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,564 | Franklinville NC | 1,256 | $53K | 18.2% | 2.8% | 2% | C− |
| 2,565 | Cando ND | 1,051 | $52K | 6.4% | 0.2% | 30% | C− |
| 2,566 | Ansonia OH | 1,147 | $62K | 17.2% | 5.3% | 2% | C− |
| 2,567 | Preston Township IL | 1,166 | $54K | 9.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 2,568 | Canton ME | 1,123 | $52K | 8.4% | 5.7% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ansonia, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Ansonia: questions
What is the median household income in Ansonia?
$61,953 (±$13,409) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ansonia?
17.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ansonia?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ansonia work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (18%, 8 mi), Versailles (7%, 8 mi), Greenville Township (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ansonia walkable?
Ansonia is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ansonia 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 Ansonia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ansonia
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.