Photo: Alvintrusty · CC BY-SA 4.0Convoy has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Convoy grades C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. There are 222 jobs in Convoy, against 509 working residents. Only 2% stay in Convoy for work; outside it, Van Wert is the main destination (35%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Convoy, in brief
Convoy and Van Wert trade workers both ways
Van Wert is the top workplace for Convoy residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Convoy come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Convoy 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 ↓
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; with 509 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Convoy’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Convoy is better than 22% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Convoy’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Convoy’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Convoy could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where Convoy goes to work
Where Convoy clocks in
35% of workers
3% 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 long Convoy spends getting to work: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Convoy workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 452 commuters (the 6% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Convoy
On a workday 500 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 213 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Convoy on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Most jobs in Convoy are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Convoy, 2013 → 2023: 159 → 222. 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 Convoy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Convoy works
About 17% 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.
Few in Convoy walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Convoy is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 481 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). 3.1% of Convoy households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Convoy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Convoy is 2,027th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 35 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Granville South OH | 1,146 | $131K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,025 | Wells VT | 1,195 | $75K | 15.5% | 6.4% | 2% | C− |
| 2,026 | Wisner NE | 1,224 | $62K | 10.3% | 0.7% | 13% | C− |
| 2,027 | Convoy OH | 1,006 | $61K | 17.2% | 4.0% | 2% | C− |
| 2,028 | Pierson Township IN | 1,229 | $72K | 31.0% | 2.1% | 1% | C− |
| 2,029 | Jackson Township OH | 1,225 | $52K | 7.9% | 12.3% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Convoy, 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 Convoy: questions
What is the median household income in Convoy?
$61,094 (±$16,338) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Convoy?
17.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Convoy?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Convoy work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Van Wert (35%, 7 mi), Fort Wayne (7%, 26 mi), Decatur (3%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Convoy walkable?
Convoy is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Convoy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Convoy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Convoy
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.