Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Frankfort works elsewhere
191 jobs are based in Frankfort, and 360 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Frankfort are C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 3% stay in Frankfort for work; outside it, Chillicothe is the main destination (23%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Frankfort and work: the main findings
The four measures behind Frankfort’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Frankfort is better than 37% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Frankfort’s grade up (9.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Frankfort’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Frankfort could be anywhere from D to B+.
How long Frankfort spends getting to work: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frankfort workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 commuters (the 10% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Frankfort
On a workday 349 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 180 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Frankfort on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
Commuting out of Frankfort: the destinations
Where Frankfort clocks in
23% of workers
12% 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.
Goods jobs make up 33% of work in Frankfort
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frankfort, 2013 → 2023: 178 → 191. 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 Frankfort’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Frankfort’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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 trips from Frankfort start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frankfort is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. 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 510 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). 7.5% of Frankfort households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Frankfort’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Frankfort is 1,800th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,798 | John Sevier TN | 1,177 | $47K | 13.3% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,799 | McGaheysville VA | 1,327 | $67K | 10.6% | 2.5% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,800 | Frankfort OH | 1,094 | $68K | 9.7% | 0.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,801 | York Township OH | 1,279 | $73K | 16.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,802 | Cranberry Township OH | 1,422 | $68K | 9.1% | 1.3% | 14% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Frankfort, 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 Frankfort: questions
What is the median household income in Frankfort?
$67,500 (±$14,421) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frankfort?
9.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frankfort?
31 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frankfort work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chillicothe (23%, 11 mi), Green Township (12%, 14 mi), Union Township (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Frankfort walkable?
Frankfort is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frankfort without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frankfort, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frankfort
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.