Photo: Jack Pearce · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Boardman Township earn less than those in 64% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Boardman Township; the top destination outside it is Youngstown (15%, 5 miles). Poverty touches 13.5% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). For jobs and income Boardman Township is better than 46% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Boardman Township, in brief
What’s behind Boardman Township’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Boardman Township’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boardman Township could be anywhere from C to B.
Where Boardman Township goes to work
Where Boardman Township clocks in
15% of workers
4% 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.
How a workday changes Boardman Township
On a workday 13,139 residents head out to work, 3,898 work right here, and 19,887 people come in from elsewhere.
About 46,000 people are in Boardman Township on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 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 kinds of work in Boardman Township
23,785 jobs are based in Boardman Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boardman Township, 2013 → 2023: 26,388 → 23,785. 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 Boardman Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Boardman Township: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boardman Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17,861 commuters (the 11% 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.
Boardman Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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.
Boardman Township is a driving town
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 19,966 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). 6.2% of Boardman Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Boardman Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
793rd of 1,086: where Boardman Township ranks among U.S. towns of 28,000 to 54,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | 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+ |
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| 5 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
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| 8 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
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| 15 | Dublin OH | 49,094 | $160K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 15% | A+ |
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| 791 | Ross Township IN | 49,726 | $72K | 11.0% | 7.4% | 18% | B− |
| 792 | Prescott Valley AZ | 52,423 | $75K | 11.7% | 2.8% | 23% | B− |
| 793 | Boardman Township OH | 39,687 | $67K | 13.5% | 4.6% | 23% | B− |
| 794 | Bath Township OH | 40,768 | $63K | 14.5% | 4.4% | 10% | B− |
| 795 | Stockbridge GA | 36,331 | $70K | 12.3% | 6.5% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,086 | 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 Boardman Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Boardman Township and its neighbors: 18% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boardman Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boardman Township | – | B− | B− | 22 min | $66,619 |
| Poland Township | under 2% | A | C− | 22 min | $94,563 |
| Poland | under 2% | A− | C | 27 min | $92,417 |
| Youngstown | 15% | D | A− | 20 min | $34,408 |
| Canfield Township | 3% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $101,360 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Youngstown. Darker towns draw more of Boardman 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 Boardman Township: questions
What is the median household income in Boardman Township?
$66,619 (±$4,299) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boardman Township?
13.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boardman Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boardman Township work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Youngstown (15%, 5 mi), Austintown (4%, 6 mi), Canfield Township (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boardman Township walkable?
Boardman Township is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boardman 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 Boardman Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boardman 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.