Photo: S. Clyde, Nat'l Scenic Byways Online · Public domainA job hub: Berlin has 4.5 jobs per working resident, and 2,492 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole. Employers in Berlin report 2,561 jobs, against 568 working residents. Berlin grades B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Berlin stands out on work
Berlin fills up on a workday
Berlin has 2,561 jobs, 4.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,200 people are in town, more than double the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Berlin have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Berlin went from 833 in 2013 to 2,561 in 2023, +207%. The jobs ↓
Berlin makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Berlin are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Berlin residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 46%. 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; with 568 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Berlin
On income, poverty and job access, Berlin is better than 58% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Berlin’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Berlin’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, Berlin could be anywhere from C to A.
Berlin on a workday afternoon
On a workday 499 residents head out to work and 69 work right here.
About 3,200 people are in Berlin on a workday afternoon, 162% more 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.
Goods, not services: 47% of the jobs in Berlin
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Berlin, 2013 → 2023: 833 → 2,561. 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 Berlin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Berlin’s workers come from
Where Berlin clocks in
7% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Berlin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Berlin workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 646 commuters (the 3% 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.
Miles to work from Berlin
About 25% 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.
In Berlin, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Berlin is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 37.1% 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 663 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). 18.7% of Berlin households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Berlin’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,303rd of 4,866: where Berlin ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,301 | Jefferson Township IN | 1,349 | $59K | 1.5% | 7.6% | <1% | B |
| 1,302 | Portage Township OH | 1,584 | $73K | 7.9% | 12.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,303 | Berlin OH | 1,232 | $83K | 8.4% | 0.0% | 12% | B |
| 1,304 | Greenfield Township MN | 1,308 | $91K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,305 | Orange Blossom CA | 1,062 | $104K | 6.4% | 1.9% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Berlin, 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 Berlin: questions
What is the median household income in Berlin?
$82,589 (±$22,772) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Berlin?
8.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Berlin?
15 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Berlin work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (7%, 74 mi), Berlin Township (7%, 1 mi), Salt Creek Township (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Berlin walkable?
Berlin is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 37% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Berlin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Berlin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Berlin
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.