Building at 101 North Franklin Street · Photo: Tim Erskine · CC BY-SA 3.0Ashley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Jobs and income earn Ashley C; getting around on foot earns it C. Ashley has 160 jobs, against 575 working residents. Measured by household income, Ashley is behind 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Ashley, in brief
Ashley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Ashley is Columbus, 29 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (122) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Ashley is a place people come home to
There are 160 jobs based in Ashley, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ashley has about 930 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Ashley workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 575 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Ashley: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Ashley is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Ashley’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Ashley’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, Ashley could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How far Ashley’s workers travel
About 15% 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.
How a workday changes Ashley
On a workday 563 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Ashley on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Time on the road from Ashley: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ashley workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 735 commuters (the 6% 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.
21% of working residents work in Columbus
Where Ashley clocks in
21% of workers
17% of workers
4% 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 Ashley’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ashley, 2013 → 2023: 137 → 160. 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 Ashley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Ashley, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ashley is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 778 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.4% of Ashley households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ashley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ashley next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 3,236th of 5,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,234 | Pilot Mountain NC | 1,437 | $49K | 12.4% | 3.5% | 9% | C |
| 3,235 | Cavalier ND | 1,218 | $60K | 6.2% | 8.7% | 34% | C |
| 3,236 | Ashley OH | 1,343 | $57K | 20.1% | 4.8% | 2% | C |
| 3,237 | Sperry OK | 1,241 | $50K | 17.7% | 5.1% | 4% | C |
| 3,238 | Cherry Township PA | 1,041 | $73K | 11.2% | 5.9% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Ashley, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Ashley compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ashley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley | – | C | C | 29 min | $56,596 |
| Oxford Township | under 2% | A− | B− | 26 min | $90,167 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ashley’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Ashley: questions
What is the median household income in Ashley?
$56,596 (±$11,255) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ashley?
20.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ashley?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ashley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (21%, 29 mi), Delaware (17%, 11 mi), Dublin (4%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ashley walkable?
Ashley is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ashley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ashley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ashley
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.