Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Bremen trail those of 72% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 15.7% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). Jobs and income earn Bremen C−; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 3% work in Bremen itself; outside it, Columbus draws the most (22%, 35 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bremen stands out on work
Bremen’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bremen is Columbus, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 22% of working residents (141) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Bremen makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Bremen are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bremen residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
Bremen workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 645 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Bremen earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Bremen’s grade.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Bremen’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, Bremen could be anywhere from D to B−.
Half of Bremen commutes less than 28 miles
About 17% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 50% of the jobs in Bremen
441 jobs are based in Bremen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bremen, 2013 → 2023: 507 → 441. 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 Bremen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Bremen, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bremen workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 786 commuters (the 6% 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.
Bremen quiets down on a workday
On a workday 625 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 421 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Bremen on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.68 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 Bremen: the destinations
Where Bremen clocks in
22% of workers
20% of workers
4% 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.
Driving is how Bremen gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bremen is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bremen near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 832 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). 3.2% of Bremen households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bremen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bremen places 3,942nd of 5,794 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,940 | Wayne Township PA | 1,262 | $64K | 10.0% | 1.7% | 2% | C− |
| 3,941 | Watkins Glen NY | 1,716 | $50K | 10.9% | 8.2% | 19% | C− |
| 3,942 | Bremen OH | 1,528 | $61K | 15.7% | 5.0% | 3% | C− |
| 3,943 | Mercer PA | 1,905 | $47K | 16.3% | 8.0% | 9% | C− |
| 3,944 | Ingram TX | 1,846 | $45K | 21.1% | 2.7% | 6% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Bremen, 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 Bremen: questions
What is the median household income in Bremen?
$61,078 (±$9,412) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bremen?
15.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bremen?
34 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bremen work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (22%, 35 mi), Lancaster (20%, 9 mi), Richland Township (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bremen walkable?
Bremen is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bremen without a car?
0% 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 Bremen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bremen
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.