Photo: Nyttend · Public domainDeshler has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Only 7% stay in Deshler for work; outside it, Napoleon is the main destination (11%, 17 miles). 258 jobs are based in Deshler, and 566 of its residents work somewhere. Deshler grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Deshler apart on work
Why Deshler gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Deshler is better than 23% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Deshler’s grade.
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Deshler’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, Deshler could be anywhere from D to B−.
The kinds of work in Deshler
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deshler, 2013 → 2023: 371 → 258. 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 Deshler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Deshler
On a workday 528 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Deshler on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Where Deshler goes to work
Where Deshler clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
Time on the road from Deshler: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deshler workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 812 commuters (the 8% 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.
Where in the region Deshler works
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.
Most trips from Deshler start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Deshler is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. 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 878 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). 3.3% of Deshler households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Deshler’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Deshler ranks 3,850th of 5,794 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,848 | Assumption IL | 1,112 | $58K | 11.7% | 9.2% | 7% | C− |
| 3,849 | Lake Odessa MI | 2,089 | $63K | 13.5% | 9.5% | 11% | C− |
| 3,850 | Deshler OH | 1,576 | $64K | 14.0% | 5.7% | 7% | C− |
| 3,851 | East Pittsburgh PA | 1,835 | $39K | 45.4% | 2.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,852 | Hideout UT | 1,587 | $99K | 19.9% | 0.8% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Deshler, 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 Deshler: questions
What is the median household income in Deshler?
$63,750 (±$20,355) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deshler?
14.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deshler?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deshler work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Napoleon (11%, 17 mi), Bartlow Township (8%, 2 mi), Allen Township (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Deshler walkable?
Deshler is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Deshler 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 Deshler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deshler
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.