Photo: Djembayz · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Burton
A typical one-way commute lasts 22 minutes, where Ohio has 23 and the U.S. 26. Burton grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 6% work in Burton; the top destination outside it is Cleveland (7%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Burton’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Burton is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Burton’s grade up (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Burton’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, Burton could be anywhere from C to B.
Burton fills up on a workday
On a workday 540 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 729 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Burton on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 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 places Burton commutes to
Where Burton clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Burton
761 jobs are based in Burton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Burton, 2013 → 2023: 715 → 761. 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 Burton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Burton spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Burton workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 691 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Burton
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.
Burton is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Burton is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.0% 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 767 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). 4.0% of Burton households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Burton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Burton ranks: 2,531st of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,529 | Julian CA | 1,751 | $78K | 5.7% | 3.6% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,530 | Washington WV | 1,139 | $60K | 6.9% | 3.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,531 | Burton OH | 1,424 | $69K | 13.8% | 1.6% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,532 | Tremont PA | 1,696 | $77K | 10.4% | 3.9% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,533 | Sour Lake TX | 1,841 | $73K | 12.6% | 6.6% | 12% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Burton, 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 Burton: questions
What is the median household income in Burton?
$69,145 (±$9,338) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Burton?
13.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Burton?
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 Burton work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (7%, 28 mi), Chardon (5%, 8 mi), Newbury Township (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Burton walkable?
Burton is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Burton without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Burton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Burton
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.