Photo: Nyttend · Public domainContinental has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Jobs and income earn Continental B−; getting around on foot earns it B+. 203 jobs are based in Continental, and 498 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The figures behind Continental’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Continental is better than 47% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Continental’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Continental’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, Continental could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who leaves Continental for work, and who comes in
On a workday 481 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 186 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Continental on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Ottawa
Where Continental clocks in
10% 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.
Jobs in Continental: what the 203 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Continental, 2013 → 2023: 208 → 203. 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 Continental’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way, about the OH average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Continental workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 538 commuters (the 5% 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.
Continental’s commute, mile by mile
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.
The commute in Continental is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Continental is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Continental 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 564 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). 5.4% of Continental households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Continental’s commuters take a bus or train.
Continental is 1,348th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,346 | Herscher IL | 1,486 | $92K | 12.1% | 5.5% | 5% | B− |
| 1,347 | West Alexandria OH | 1,311 | $60K | 8.5% | 1.1% | 6% | B− |
| 1,348 | Continental OH | 1,103 | $75K | 7.2% | 4.7% | 3% | B− |
| 1,349 | Cassville WV | 1,149 | $90K | 15.1% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| 1,350 | Gardner IL | 1,366 | $88K | 16.1% | 13.5% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Continental, 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 Continental: questions
What is the median household income in Continental?
$75,313 (±$20,856) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Continental?
7.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Continental?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Continental work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ottawa (10%, 14 mi), Defiance (7%, 14 mi), Kalida (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Continental walkable?
Continental is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Continental without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Continental, from the people who make the trip.
More of Continental
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.