Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Edgerton are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
For 1% of workers, the job is at home, against 13% across Ohio. 15.2% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.3% across Ohio. The two grades for Edgerton are C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Edgerton, in brief
Edgerton’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Edgerton is better than 31% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Edgerton’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($45,216, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Edgerton could be anywhere from D to B−.
How long Edgerton spends getting to work: 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 Edgerton workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 993 commuters (the 1% 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.
A workday in Edgerton: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 751 residents head out to work, 142 work right here, and 662 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Bryan
Where Edgerton clocks in
15% 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.
Goods jobs make up 30% of work in Edgerton
804 jobs are based in Edgerton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgerton, 2013 → 2023: 846 → 804. 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 Edgerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Edgerton, by distance
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Edgerton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Edgerton is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,002 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). 9.4% of Edgerton households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Edgerton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edgerton is 3,334th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,332 | Toluca IL | 1,310 | $70K | 13.8% | 5.5% | 15% | C |
| 3,333 | Benton LA | 2,118 | $58K | 23.9% | 4.1% | 13% | C |
| 3,334 | Edgerton OH | 1,882 | $45K | 15.2% | 3.0% | 16% | C |
| 3,335 | Meyersdale PA | 1,986 | $66K | 10.0% | 4.3% | 8% | C |
| 3,336 | Watersmeet Township MI | 1,481 | $73K | 7.4% | 3.1% | 27% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Edgerton, 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 Edgerton: questions
What is the median household income in Edgerton?
$45,216 (±$6,215) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edgerton?
15.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgerton?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgerton work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bryan (15%, 10 mi), Butler (4%, 6 mi), Montpelier (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edgerton walkable?
Edgerton is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edgerton without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edgerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgerton
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.