West School · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainCrooksville’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
3% of workers work from home; Ohio has 13%. 30.7% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 13.3% for Ohio as a whole. The two grades for Crooksville are D for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Crooksville and work: the main findings
Crooksville makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Crooksville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Crooksville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Few Crooksville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 943 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Crooksville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crooksville is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Crooksville’s grade up (3.8%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crooksville could be anywhere from D− to C.
49% of the jobs in Crooksville make or build things
544 jobs are based in Crooksville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crooksville, 2014 → 2024: 492 → 544. 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 Crooksville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Crooksville takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crooksville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 963 commuters (the 3% 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 Crooksville
On a workday 871 residents head out to work, 72 work right here, and 472 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Crooksville on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
14% of working residents work in Zanesville
Where Crooksville clocks in
14% of workers
10% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Crooksville
About 23% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Crooksville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crooksville is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 996 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). 11.3% of Crooksville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crooksville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crooksville places 4,083rd of 4,995 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,081 | Hampton TN | 1,883 | $39K | 19.9% | 2.9% | 2% | D |
| 4,082 | Leon IA | 1,773 | $54K | 10.7% | 0.8% | 22% | D |
| 4,083 | Crooksville OH | 2,404 | $47K | 30.7% | 3.8% | 8% | D |
| 4,084 | Saluda SC | 3,086 | $43K | 43.9% | 3.7% | 9% | D |
| 4,085 | George West TX | 2,238 | $48K | 13.6% | 4.5% | 15% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Crooksville, 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 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 Crooksville: questions
What is the median household income in Crooksville?
$47,411 (±$7,533) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crooksville?
30.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crooksville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crooksville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Zanesville (14%, 14 mi), Columbus (10%, 50 mi), New Lexington (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Crooksville walkable?
Crooksville is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crooksville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crooksville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crooksville
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.