Photo: Nyttend · Public domainCollege students make up 70% of Cedarville’s residents
About one in four work in Cedarville; the top destination outside it is Dayton (6%, 21 miles). The two grades for Cedarville are B− for jobs and income and A for walkability. Family incomes here are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Cedarville apart
Many jobs in Cedarville pay little
59% of the jobs based in Cedarville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 59% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Jobs in Cedarville have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Cedarville went from 975 in 2013 to 1,991 in 2023, +104%. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Cedarville is services
98% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 1% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Cedarville are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Cedarville
53% of Cedarville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 26% of the jobs based in Cedarville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 75% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Cedarville
On family income, poverty and job access, Cedarville is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #665 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Cedarville’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); family income pulls it down ($74,286, U.S. $99,999). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (28% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 9.5%, against 23.5% for all residents. Unemployment (10.4%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($74,286), since student households pull the household median down ($63,750).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Cedarville could be anywhere from D to A−.
Cedarville is a services town
1,991 jobs are based in Cedarville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cedarville, 2013 → 2023: 975 → 1,991. 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 Cedarville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Cedarville: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cedarville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,485 commuters (the 16% 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.
How many people are in Cedarville by day
On a workday 981 residents head out to work, 327 work right here, and 1,664 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,400 people are in Cedarville on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
1.5 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.
Commuting in to Cedarville: where workers come from
Where Cedarville clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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 many miles Cedarville commutes
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.
Cedarville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cedarville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns, #34 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 38.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 8.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,769 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.9% of Cedarville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cedarville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,300, Cedarville ranks 2,197th of 3,798 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Sharon Township OH | 6,117 | $126K | 1.8% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,195 | Knox Township IL | 4,785 | $82K | 11.3% | 4.8% | 9% | B− |
| 2,196 | Sheldon IA | 5,575 | $62K | 15.3% | 0.6% | 40% | B− |
| 2,197 | Cedarville OH | 4,667 | $64K | 23.5% | 10.4% | 25% | B− |
| 2,198 | Lewisburg PA | 5,226 | $55K | 20.8% | 0.7% | 23% | B− |
| 2,199 | Pike Township OH | 4,166 | $67K | 15.6% | 1.5% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,798 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Cedarville, 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.
- Students. 70% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Cedarville: questions
What is the median household income in Cedarville?
$63,750 (±$15,616) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cedarville?
23.5% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 9.5%. Ohio: 13.3%.
How long is the commute from Cedarville?
13 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cedarville work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dayton (6%, 21 mi), Beavercreek (5%, 14 mi), Xenia (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cedarville walkable?
Cedarville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 38% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cedarville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cedarville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cedarville
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.