Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Braceville Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Braceville Township has 257 jobs; 1,013 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Braceville Township are C for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Measured by household income, Braceville Township is behind 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Braceville Township stands out on work
How Braceville Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Braceville Township is better than 31% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Braceville Township’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($48,875, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Braceville Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Braceville Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
A workday in Braceville Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 987 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 231 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Braceville Township on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer 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.
7% of working residents work in Warren
Where Braceville Township clocks in
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 62% of Braceville Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Braceville Township, 2013 → 2023: 223 → 257. 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 Braceville Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Braceville Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Braceville Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 680 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Braceville Township
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 trips from Braceville Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Braceville Township is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 730 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). 1.6% of Braceville Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Braceville Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Braceville Township next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300: 3,364th of 5,207 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,362 | Clinton Township PA | 2,071 | $68K | 9.6% | 4.4% | 2% | C |
| 3,363 | Ridgebury Township PA | 1,886 | $67K | 11.0% | 7.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,364 | Braceville Township OH | 2,436 | $49K | 14.1% | 2.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,365 | Berrien Springs MI | 1,767 | $65K | 13.4% | 6.5% | 7% | C |
| 3,366 | Nottawa Township MI | 2,225 | $79K | 8.6% | 6.8% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Braceville Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Braceville Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Newton Falls (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Braceville Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braceville Township | – | C | B− | 25 min | $48,875 |
| Newton Falls | 4% | C− | B | 25 min | $50,506 |
| Newton Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 27 min | $62,327 |
| Southington Township | under 2% | B | D− | 25 min | $69,750 |
| Warren Township | under 2% | C | C | 24 min | $47,174 |
| Windham Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Windham Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Braceville 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 Braceville Township: questions
What is the median household income in Braceville Township?
$48,875 (±$15,993) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Braceville Township?
14.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Braceville Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Braceville Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warren (7%, 7 mi), Newton Falls (4%, 3 mi), Youngstown (3%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Braceville Township walkable?
Braceville Township is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Braceville Township without a car?
6% 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 Braceville Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Braceville 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.