Photo: User:OHWiki · Public domainHouseholds in Fremont have lower incomes than those in 91% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers; Ohio has 13%. Below the poverty line: 22.7% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. The two grades for Fremont are C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Fremont apart on work
Inside Fremont’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fremont is better than 19% of U.S. towns, #904 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Fremont’s grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($47,024, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fremont could be anywhere from D to C.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Fremont
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fremont workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,445 commuters (the 2% 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.
Fremont by day and by night
On a workday 5,156 residents head out to work, 2,217 work right here, and 8,172 people come in from elsewhere.
About 19,000 people are in Fremont on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 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.
7% of working residents work in Clyde
Where Fremont clocks in
7% 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.
Goods jobs make up 34% of work in Fremont
10,389 jobs are based in Fremont.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fremont, 2013 → 2023: 10,721 → 10,389. 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 Fremont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Fremont
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Fremont
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fremont is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns, #80 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Fremont near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,572 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). 5.0% of Fremont households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Fremont’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fremont next to U.S. towns of 11,000 to 21,000: 1,874th of 2,109 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,872 | Lexington NC | 20,238 | $43K | 27.8% | 6.0% | 17% | C− |
| 1,873 | Fostoria OH | 12,920 | $54K | 16.4% | 6.2% | 23% | C− |
| 1,874 | Fremont OH | 15,765 | $47K | 22.7% | 5.5% | 30% | C− |
| 1,875 | Kerman CA | 17,553 | $60K | 21.3% | 10.4% | 14% | C− |
| 1,876 | St. Marys GA | 20,546 | $74K | 17.4% | 7.6% | 17% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,109 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Fremont, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Fremont compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Stony Prairie (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fremont workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont | – | C− | A− | 19 min | $47,024 |
| Sandusky Township | 1% | C+ | B− | 18 min | $82,796 |
| Ballville Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 22 min | $78,330 |
| Stony Prairie | 5% | C− | A− | 18 min | $60,347 |
| Ballville | under 2% | B | C− | 20 min | $84,896 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fremont’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 Fremont: questions
What is the median household income in Fremont?
$47,024 (±$5,515) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fremont?
22.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fremont?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fremont work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clyde (7%, 8 mi), Stony Prairie (5%, 2 mi), Toledo (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fremont walkable?
Fremont is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fremont without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fremont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fremont
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.