Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWork, pay and getting to work in Fairfield Township
31% of workers have no commute at all (Ohio 13%). Fairfield Township grades D for walkability. Only 3% work in Fairfield Township itself; outside it, Boardman Township draws the most (11%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Fairfield Township at work: what stands out
The better-paid jobs are outside Fairfield Township
56% of Fairfield Township residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 18% of the jobs based in Fairfield Township pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Fairfield Township is where the jobs are
Fairfield Township has 549 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Many jobs in Fairfield Township pay little
40% of the jobs based in Fairfield Township pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 36% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 340 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The 549 jobs based in Fairfield Township
549 jobs are based in Fairfield Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairfield Township, 2013 → 2023: 665 → 549. 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 Fairfield Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Fairfield Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 329 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 538 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.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Commuting in to Fairfield Township: where workers come from
Where Fairfield Township clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
A commute of about 17 minutes in Fairfield Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairfield Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 375 commuters (the 31% 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.
Fairfield Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 15% 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 of Fairfield Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fairfield Township is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #841 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 545 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). 5.8% of Fairfield Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fairfield Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
The towns next door employ 15% of Fairfield Township
The biggest share goes to Columbiana (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fairfield Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield Township | – | — | D | 17 min | — |
| Beaver Township | 5% | B+ | C+ | 21 min | $96,505 |
| Columbiana | 10% | B | B− | 19 min | $54,688 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fairfield Township’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 Fairfield Township: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fairfield Township?
2.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairfield Township?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 31% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairfield Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boardman Township (11%, 8 mi), Columbiana (10%, 2 mi), Youngstown (9%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fairfield Township walkable?
Fairfield Township is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fairfield Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairfield Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairfield Township
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.