Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Apple Creek
The trip to work takes 25 minutes on average, next to 23 for Ohio and 26 for the U.S. The two grades for Apple Creek are B for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 4% stay in Apple Creek for work; outside it, East Union Township is the main destination (12%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Apple Creek apart on work
Apple Creek makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Apple Creek are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Apple Creek residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 41%. The jobs ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Apple Creek’s working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 25 minutes, longer than the Ohio average of 23. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 470 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Apple Creek’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Apple Creek is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Apple Creek’s grade up (7.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($71,250, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Apple Creek’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, Apple Creek could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
In Apple Creek, 55% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
398 jobs are based in Apple Creek.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Apple Creek, 2014 → 2024: 316 → 398. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Apple Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way, longer than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Apple Creek workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 435 commuters (the 10% 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.
Who commutes out of Apple Creek, and who commutes in
On a workday 453 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 381 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.85 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Apple Creek: the destinations
Where Apple Creek clocks in
12% 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.
Apple Creek’s commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Apple Creek walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Apple Creek is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 484 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). 3.4% of Apple Creek households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Apple Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Apple Creek is 1,082nd of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,080 | Amanda Township OH | 1,048 | $99K | 7.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,081 | Potomac Heights MD | 1,351 | $72K | 9.5% | 5.2% | <1% | B |
| 1,082 | Apple Creek OH | 1,183 | $71K | 7.5% | 2.2% | 4% | B |
| 1,083 | Woodsboro TX | 1,277 | $82K | 4.3% | 4.9% | 7% | B |
| 1,084 | Clinton Township IN | 1,529 | $106K | 13.4% | 6.4% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Apple Creek, 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 2024, 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 Apple Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Apple Creek?
$71,250 (±$8,536) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Apple Creek?
7.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Apple Creek?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Apple Creek work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are East Union Township (12%, 2 mi), Wooster (9%, 7 mi), Salt Creek Township (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Apple Creek walkable?
Apple Creek is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Apple Creek 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 Apple Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Apple Creek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.