Photo: Chris Light at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Avon’s household incomes are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
Avon grades A+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Below the poverty line: 3.0% of residents, next to 13.3% for Ohio as a whole. For 23% 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
Avon and work: the main findings
Avon trades workers with the towns around it
Avon has about as many jobs (12,911) as working residents (11,101), but they are mostly different people: 9,952 residents leave for work each day while 11,762 people come in. Only 9% of the jobs in Avon are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Avon works from home
23% of Avon workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Time on the road ↓
Avon has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Avon went from 8,611 in 2013 to 12,911 in 2023, +50%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Avon
67% of Avon residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 49% of the jobs based in Avon pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 90% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Avon’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Avon is better than 98% of U.S. towns, #24 of 992 in Ohio. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Avon’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Avon could be anywhere from A to A+.
Who commutes out of Avon, and who commutes in
On a workday 9,952 residents head out to work, 1,149 work right here, and 11,762 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 (1.16 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.
The daily trip from Avon: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Avon workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,897 commuters (the 23% 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.
The kinds of work in Avon
12,911 jobs are based in Avon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Avon, 2013 → 2023: 8,611 → 12,911. 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 Avon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Avon ends
Where Avon clocks in
23% of workers
9% 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.
Miles to work from Avon
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.
Most of Avon commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Avon is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #513 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% 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 12,892 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). 2.6% of Avon households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Avon’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Avon ranks: 21st of 1,576 U.S. towns of 18,000 to 35,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| 4 | Powell OH | 18,269 | $195K | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Franconia VA | 18,335 | $152K | 2.8% | 2.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 20 | Genoa Township OH | 27,720 | $177K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 21 | Avon OH | 25,611 | $136K | 3.0% | 1.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 22 | Scotch Plains Township NJ | 25,437 | $184K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 7% | A+ |
| 23 | Short Pump VA | 29,026 | $139K | 3.6% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Solon OH | 23,679 | $139K | 3.3% | 2.4% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,576 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Avon, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Bordering towns draw 14% of Avon’s workers
The biggest share goes to Westlake (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Avon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon | – | A+ | C+ | 25 min | $135,915 |
| Sheffield | under 2% | A+ | C+ | 25 min | $107,837 |
| Avon Lake | 3% | A+ | C+ | 29 min | $115,567 |
| Westlake | 9% | A | B | 24 min | $112,200 |
| North Ridgeville | 2% | A | B− | 26 min | $96,698 |
| Bay Village | under 2% | A+ | B+ | 24 min | $132,254 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Avon’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 Avon: questions
What is the median household income in Avon?
$135,915 (±$15,255) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Avon?
3.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Avon?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Avon work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (23%, 17 mi), Westlake (9%, 4 mi), Elyria (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Avon walkable?
Avon is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Avon without a car?
<1% 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 Avon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Avon
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.