Photo: Will Maupin · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Doylestown works elsewhere
Doylestown grades A− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 559 jobs are based in Doylestown for 1,134 working residents. About one in ten work in Doylestown itself; outside it, Wadsworth draws the most (9%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Doylestown’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Doylestown is better than 84% of U.S. towns, #210 of 992 in Ohio. The poverty rate is its strongest input (3.1%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($79,181, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Doylestown could be anywhere from B to A+.
In and out of Doylestown on a workday
On a workday 1,038 residents head out to work, 96 work right here, and 463 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Doylestown on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
The places Doylestown commutes to
Where Doylestown clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Doylestown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Doylestown, 2013 → 2023: 551 → 559. 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 Doylestown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Doylestown: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Doylestown workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,203 commuters (the 12% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Doylestown
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.
In Doylestown, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Doylestown is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #545 of 993 in Ohio. 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 1,370 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). 4.9% of Doylestown households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Doylestown’s commuters take a bus or train.
623rd of 4,562: where Doylestown ranks among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 621 | Germany Township PA | 2,913 | $103K | 2.8% | 2.4% | 5% | A− |
| 622 | Bermuda Run NC | 3,323 | $69K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 4% | A− |
| 623 | Doylestown OH | 3,085 | $79K | 3.1% | 3.3% | 8% | A− |
| 624 | Castroville TX | 3,444 | $78K | 5.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A− |
| 625 | Madison Township IN | 2,888 | $86K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Doylestown, 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 Doylestown: questions
What is the median household income in Doylestown?
$79,181 (±$17,579) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Doylestown?
3.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Doylestown?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Doylestown work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wadsworth (9%, 4 mi), Norton (6%, 5 mi), Orrville (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Doylestown walkable?
Doylestown is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Doylestown 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 Doylestown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Doylestown
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.