Photo: Nyttend · Public domainAustintown Township has lower household incomes than 79% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Austintown Township; the top destination outside it is Youngstown (14%, 6 miles). Below the poverty line: 15.7% of residents, next to 13.3% across Ohio. Austintown Township grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Austintown Township at work: what stands out
Where Austintown Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Austintown Township is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #720 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Austintown Township’s grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($56,628, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Austintown Township could be anywhere from C to B.
How far Austintown Township goes to work
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.
Austintown Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 12,531 residents head out to work, 2,211 work right here, and 10,148 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 (0.84 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Austintown Township: the destinations
Where Austintown Township clocks in
14% of workers
12% of workers
11% 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 Austintown Township’s employers do
12,359 jobs are based in Austintown Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Austintown Township, 2013 → 2023: 13,070 → 12,359. 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 Austintown Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, about the OH average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Austintown Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16,460 commuters (the 7% 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.
Driving is how Austintown Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Austintown Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #501 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Austintown Township 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 17,689 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). 6.0% of Austintown Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Austintown Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
945th of 1,219: where Austintown Township ranks among U.S. towns of 25,000 to 48,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Genoa Township OH | 27,720 | $177K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 943 | Granite City IL | 26,807 | $59K | 14.8% | 5.7% | 17% | C+ |
| 944 | Merrillville IN | 37,407 | $68K | 12.6% | 7.5% | 13% | C+ |
| 945 | Austintown Township OH | 35,477 | $57K | 15.7% | 4.1% | 15% | C+ |
| 946 | Spring Valley NY | 34,482 | $57K | 27.6% | 4.2% | 10% | C+ |
| 947 | Seguin TX | 41,048 | $65K | 17.1% | 4.4% | 29% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,219 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Austintown Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns next door employ 22% of Austintown Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Austintown Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austintown Township | – | C+ | C+ | 22 min | $56,628 |
| Youngstown | 14% | D | A− | 20 min | $34,408 |
| Canfield Township | 2% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $101,360 |
| Weathersfield Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 22 min | $51,927 |
| Jackson Township | 3% | C | C− | 28 min | $60,039 |
| Lordstown | 3% | B+ | D− | 24 min | $66,411 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Youngstown. Darker towns draw more of Austintown Township’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 Austintown Township: questions
What is the median household income in Austintown Township?
$56,628 (±$3,248) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Austintown Township?
15.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Austintown Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Austintown Township work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Youngstown (14%, 6 mi), Austintown (12%, 1 mi), Boardman Township (11%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Austintown Township walkable?
Austintown Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Austintown Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Austintown Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Austintown Township
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.