Photo: Photo by and ©2008 Dustin M. Ramsey (Kralizec!) · CC BY-SA 2.5Antwerp has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
308 jobs are based in Antwerp, against 776 working residents. Jobs and income earn Antwerp C+; getting around on foot earns it B−. For 2% of workers, the job is at home, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Antwerp apart
Many jobs in Antwerp pay little
36% of the jobs based in Antwerp pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
A lot of Antwerp workers cross into Indiana
27% of Antwerp workers work outside Ohio, most of them in Indiana, the Census survey finds. The commute map ↓
Antwerp’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Antwerp is Fort Wayne, IN, 22 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (96) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 776 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Antwerp’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Antwerp is better than 36% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Antwerp’s grade up (9.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($58,036, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Antwerp’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Antwerp could be anywhere from C− to B.
Jobs in Antwerp: what the 308 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Antwerp, 2013 → 2023: 287 → 308. 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 Antwerp’s own residents hold wherever they work.
12% of working residents work in Fort Wayne
Where Antwerp clocks in
6% 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.
How far it is to work from Antwerp
About 20% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Antwerp
On a workday 717 residents head out to work, 59 work right here, and 249 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Antwerp on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
About 25 minutes to work from Antwerp
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Antwerp workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 816 commuters (the 2% 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.
Antwerp is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Antwerp is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 831 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). 4.8% of Antwerp households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Antwerp’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Antwerp is 3,037th among 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,035 | Zilwaukee MI | 1,489 | $58K | 15.2% | 5.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,036 | Duenweg MO | 2,100 | $63K | 20.9% | 3.7% | <1% | C+ |
| 3,037 | Antwerp OH | 1,679 | $58K | 9.7% | 2.8% | 8% | C+ |
| 3,038 | Cabot VT | 1,470 | $77K | 9.0% | 1.7% | 9% | C+ |
| 3,039 | Belle Plaine WI | 1,756 | $75K | 12.5% | 3.3% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Antwerp, 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 Antwerp: questions
What is the median household income in Antwerp?
$58,036 (±$12,334) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Antwerp?
9.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Antwerp?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Antwerp work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (12%, 22 mi), Hicksville (6%, 8 mi), Paulding (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Antwerp walkable?
Antwerp is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Antwerp without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Antwerp, from the people who make the trip.
More of Antwerp
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.