Photo: Chris Light Original uploader was Chris Light at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Bryan are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Bryan C−; getting around on foot earns it A. Poverty touches 19.0% of residents, next to 13.3% for Ohio as a whole. 3% of workers work from home, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bryan
Bryan is where the jobs are
Bryan has 6,456 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Bryan are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker. Time on the road ↓
Bryan makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Bryan are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bryan residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 40%. The jobs ↓
Few Bryan workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Bryan’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bryan is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #909 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Bryan’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($52,865, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bryan could be anywhere from D to B−.
In and out of Bryan on a workday
On a workday 2,604 residents head out to work, 1,488 work right here, and 4,968 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Bryan on a workday afternoon, 28% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
From Bryan, about 16 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bryan workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,846 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.
In Bryan, 39% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
6,456 jobs are based in Bryan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bryan, 2013 → 2023: 6,822 → 6,456. 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 Bryan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Bryan’s workers come from
Where Bryan clocks in
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.
Short hops and long hauls from Bryan
About 18% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Bryan
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bryan is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns, #45 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Bryan 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 3,956 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). 7.9% of Bryan households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bryan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bryan is 2,571st among 2,944 U.S. towns of 6,000 to 11,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Madeira OH | 9,637 | $168K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
| 27 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,569 | Franklin CA | 7,392 | $58K | 22.9% | 6.9% | 1% | C− |
| 2,570 | Farmersville CA | 10,326 | $61K | 22.9% | 8.0% | 7% | C− |
| 2,571 | Bryan OH | 8,579 | $53K | 19.0% | 5.6% | 36% | C− |
| 2,572 | Elwood IN | 8,525 | $53K | 19.5% | 6.2% | 17% | C− |
| 2,573 | Blackwell OK | 6,029 | $53K | 14.6% | 4.3% | 22% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,944 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Bryan, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Bryan compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Center Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bryan workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan | – | C− | A | 16 min | $52,865 |
| Pulaski Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 15 min | $66,959 |
| Center Township | 2% | B | D | 22 min | $89,205 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bryan’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 Bryan: questions
What is the median household income in Bryan?
$52,865 (±$3,868) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bryan?
19.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bryan?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bryan work?
36% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Defiance (5%, 16 mi), Montpelier (4%, 8 mi), Archbold (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bryan walkable?
Bryan is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bryan without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bryan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bryan
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.