Photo: Jf1123581321 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gates Mills has some of the highest household incomes of any U.S. town
Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. 6.1% of residents live below the poverty line (Ohio 13.3%). Gates Mills grades A+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Gates Mills in brief
What’s behind Gates Mills’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Gates Mills is better than 97% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($231,250, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Gates Mills’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, Gates Mills could be anywhere from A to A+.
29% of working residents work in Cleveland
Where Gates Mills clocks in
29% of workers
5% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Gates Mills
On a workday 953 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 553 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Gates Mills on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
In Gates Mills, services account for most jobs
585 jobs are based in Gates Mills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gates Mills, 2013 → 2023: 631 → 585. 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 Gates Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes each way for Gates Mills’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gates Mills workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 775 commuters (the 17% 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 Gates Mills
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 Gates Mills start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gates Mills is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.1% of 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 930 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). <1% 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). 0.8% of Gates Mills households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gates Mills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Gates Mills is 109th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Rancho Santa Fe CA | 2,260 | $176K | 4.9% | 9.8% | 3% | A+ |
| 108 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| 109 | Gates Mills OH | 2,236 | $231K | 6.1% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 110 | Oregon WI | 2,994 | $151K | 2.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 111 | San Pasqual CA | 1,918 | $123K | 7.4% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | 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 Gates Mills, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Gates Mills: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Mayfield Heights (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gates Mills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gates Mills | – | A+ | C− | 20 min | $231,250 |
| Mayfield | under 2% | A− | B− | 22 min | $125,962 |
| Mayfield Heights | 3% | B− | A | 22 min | $66,524 |
| Chester Township | under 2% | A− | C | 26 min | $111,159 |
| Chesterland | 2% | B+ | C+ | 26 min | $107,898 |
| Willoughby Hills | under 2% | B+ | B− | 21 min | $67,214 |
| Hunting Valley | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hunting Valley: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gates Mills’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 Gates Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Gates Mills?
$231,250 (±$63,811) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gates Mills?
6.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gates Mills?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gates Mills work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (29%, 14 mi), Euclid (5%, 7 mi), Beachwood (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gates Mills walkable?
Gates Mills is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gates Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gates Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gates Mills
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.