Photo: Keith Brewster · CC BY-SA 2.5Concord Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Measured by household income, Concord Township is ahead of 89% of U.S. towns. There are 4,517 jobs in Concord Township, against 9,254 working residents. For jobs and income Concord Township is better than 97% of U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Concord Township in brief
Where Concord Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Concord Township could be anywhere from A to A+.
18% of working residents work in Mentor
Where Concord Township clocks in
18% of workers
15% 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.
Who leaves Concord Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 8,682 residents head out to work, 572 work right here, and 3,945 people come in from elsewhere.
About 14,000 people are in Concord Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
What Concord Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Concord Township, 2014 → 2024: 4,536 → 4,517. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Concord Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Concord Township: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Concord Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,503 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.
Concord Township’s commute, mile by mile
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Concord Township, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 10,161 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 9% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 9% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% 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). 1.3% of Concord Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Concord Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 13,000 to 26,000, Concord Township ranks 113th of 2,023 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Powell OH | 18,269 | $195K | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Edgewood WA | 13,548 | $116K | 4.6% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 112 | Stoneham MA | 24,253 | $114K | 5.4% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| 113 | Concord Township OH | 19,217 | $122K | 2.9% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 114 | Gainesville VA | 18,196 | $174K | 4.0% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| 115 | Brambleton VA | 24,537 | $238K | 3.5% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,023 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Concord Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns next door employ 25% of Concord Township
The biggest share goes to Mentor (18%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Concord Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concord Township | – | A+ | C− | 25 min | $121,527 |
| Painesville Township | 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Leroy Township | under 2% | A+ | D | 27 min | $114,250 |
| Painesville | 4% | C− | A | 20 min | $51,516 |
| Mentor | 18% | A | B+ | 22 min | $88,949 |
| Chardon Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Kirtland Hills | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Hambden Township | under 2% | A | C− | 27 min | $93,849 |
Same-state neighbors only. Painesville Township and Chardon Township: not graded. Kirtland Hills: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Concord 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 2024, 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 Concord Township: questions
What is the median household income in Concord Township?
$121,527 (±$6,995) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Concord Township?
2.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Concord Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Concord Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mentor (18%, 5 mi), Cleveland (15%, 26 mi), Willoughby (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Concord Township walkable?
Concord Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Concord Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 9% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Concord Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Concord Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.