Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0More people are out of work in Blanchester (10.8%) than in 96% of U.S. towns
Blanchester grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns. About one in ten work in Blanchester itself; outside it, Wilmington draws the most (7%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Blanchester, in a few figures
Why Blanchester gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Blanchester is better than 16% of U.S. towns, #924 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Blanchester’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Blanchester could be anywhere from D to B+.
Jobs in Blanchester: what the 1,141 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blanchester, 2013 → 2023: 1,521 → 1,141. 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 Blanchester’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Blanchester quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,534 residents head out to work, 172 work right here, and 969 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Blanchester on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.67 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Blanchester: the destinations
Where Blanchester clocks in
7% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
About 27 minutes each way for Blanchester’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blanchester workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,776 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.
Blanchester’s commute, mile by mile
About 19% 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.
Few in Blanchester walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blanchester is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #139 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,968 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). 1.7% of Blanchester households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Blanchester’s commuters take a bus or train.
Blanchester is 3,381st of 3,962 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Beechwood Trails OH | 3,133 | $111K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Guilford Township OH | 3,158 | $112K | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,379 | Lenwood CA | 3,383 | $79K | 15.2% | 8.6% | 1% | C− |
| 3,380 | Crouch Mesa NM | 4,812 | $64K | 21.9% | 6.7% | 3% | C− |
| 3,381 | Blanchester OH | 4,250 | $55K | 13.2% | 10.8% | 10% | C− |
| 3,382 | Marathon Township MI | 4,444 | $66K | 11.3% | 12.2% | 3% | C− |
| 3,383 | Charlestown NH | 4,924 | $47K | 14.8% | 5.1% | 19% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,962 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Blanchester, 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 Blanchester: questions
What is the median household income in Blanchester?
$54,583 (±$23,883) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blanchester?
13.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blanchester?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blanchester work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (7%, 12 mi), Columbus (5%, 71 mi), Lebanon (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Blanchester walkable?
Blanchester is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blanchester without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blanchester, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blanchester
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.