Photo: Ed!(Hall of Fame) · CC BY-SA 3.0Five Points has higher household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
1.9% of residents are in poverty, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. For jobs and income Five Points is among the top U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (C−). 39% of workers have no commute at all, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Five Points at work: what stands out
Home offices are common in Five Points
39% of Five Points workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Time on the road ↓
Five Points is a place people come home to
There are 161 jobs based in Five Points, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Five Points has about 1,300 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Five Points’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Five Points is Cincinnati, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (70) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 904 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Five Points earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Five Points is among the top U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Five Points’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, Five Points could be anywhere from A to A+.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Five Points
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Five Points workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 505 commuters (the 39% 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.
Five Points by day and by night
On a workday 900 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Five Points on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
0.18 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Five Points
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.
8% of working residents work in Cincinnati
Where Five Points clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
What Five Points’ employers do
161 jobs are based in Five Points.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Five Points, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 161. 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 Five Points’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Five Points: mostly by car
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 829 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.5% of Five Points households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Five Points’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700, Five Points comes 59th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| 58 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 59 | Five Points OH | 2,031 | $144K | 1.9% | 4.4% | <1% | A+ |
| 60 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 61 | New Market MD | 1,609 | $203K | 0.8% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Five Points, 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 Five Points: questions
What is the median household income in Five Points?
$144,293 (±$55,356) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Five Points?
1.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Five Points?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 39% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Five Points work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cincinnati (8%, 34 mi), Dayton (8%, 16 mi), Miami Township (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Five Points walkable?
Five Points is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Five Points without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Five Points, from the people who make the trip.
More of Five Points
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.