Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Households in Elmore have higher incomes than those in 62% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Elmore are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 6.1% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. 5% of workers work from home (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Elmore, in a few figures
How Elmore earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Elmore is better than 74% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Elmore’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Elmore’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Elmore could be anywhere from B− to A.
Making and building: 47% of jobs based in Elmore
375 jobs are based in Elmore.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elmore, 2013 → 2023: 407 → 375. 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 Elmore’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Elmore: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 581 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 355 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Elmore on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.62 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 Toledo
Where Elmore clocks in
11% of workers
4% 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.
Getting to work from Elmore takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elmore workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 660 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Elmore
About 22% 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.
Few in Elmore walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Elmore is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 693 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). 3.2% of Elmore households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Elmore’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800, Elmore comes 753rd 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 27 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 751 | Oconto Falls WI | 1,291 | $92K | 3.1% | 0.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 752 | Linwood WI | 1,082 | $82K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 0% | B+ |
| 753 | Elmore OH | 1,370 | $85K | 6.1% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 754 | Merritt Township MI | 1,325 | $89K | 4.8% | 4.2% | <1% | B+ |
| 755 | Eau Pleine WI | 1,078 | $107K | 6.2% | 6.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Elmore, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Elmore: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Harris Township (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Elmore workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmore | – | B+ | C− | 24 min | $84,554 |
| Harris Township | 4% | A− | D | 25 min | $89,471 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Elmore’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 Elmore: questions
What is the median household income in Elmore?
$84,554 (±$16,423) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elmore?
6.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elmore?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elmore work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toledo (11%, 20 mi), Fremont (4%, 12 mi), Harris Township (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Elmore walkable?
Elmore is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Elmore 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 Elmore, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elmore
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.