Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Households in Delphos have lower incomes than those in 72% of U.S. towns
4% of workers work from home (Ohio 13%). Below the poverty line: 12.2% of residents, next to 13.3% across Ohio. For jobs and income Delphos is better than 28% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Delphos, in brief
Income, poverty and work: Delphos’ grade explained
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Delphos’ grade.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Delphos could be anywhere from D to B.
About 22 minutes each way for Delphos’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delphos workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,331 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.
Delphos by day and by night
On a workday 2,846 residents head out to work, 512 work right here, and 1,781 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,000 people are in Delphos on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.68 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 2023, primary jobs.
11% of working residents work in Lima
Where Delphos clocks in
11% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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 Delphos: what the 2,293 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delphos, 2013 → 2023: 2,746 → 2,293. 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 Delphos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Delphos
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 Delphos is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of 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 3,451 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 Delphos households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delphos’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Delphos is 2,447th of 3,164 U.S. towns of 5,000 to 9,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Pepper Pike OH | 6,886 | $228K | 1.8% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Independence OH | 7,456 | $116K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,445 | Bethel AK | 6,626 | $117K | 11.6% | 8.3% | — | C |
| 2,446 | Carlinville IL | 5,465 | $58K | 20.5% | 2.4% | 31% | C |
| 2,447 | Delphos OH | 7,096 | $61K | 12.2% | 5.6% | 15% | C |
| 2,448 | Latrobe PA | 7,826 | $56K | 16.6% | 5.4% | 14% | C |
| 2,449 | Tecumseh OK | 6,402 | $49K | 16.3% | 3.6% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,164 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Delphos, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Delphos and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Marion Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Delphos workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delphos | – | C | C+ | 22 min | $61,037 |
| Marion Township | 6% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $64,671 |
| Jennings Township | under 2% | A− | C+ | 21 min | $87,772 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Delphos’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 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 Delphos: questions
What is the median household income in Delphos?
$61,037 (±$6,854) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delphos?
12.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delphos?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delphos work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lima (11%, 14 mi), Van Wert (6%, 13 mi), Marion Township (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delphos walkable?
Delphos is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delphos without a car?
0% 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 Delphos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delphos
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.