Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Girard works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Girard is behind 85% of U.S. towns. Girard has 2,243 jobs; 3,977 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Girard is better than 31% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Girard in brief
Girard’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Girard’s grade up (ahead of 78% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Girard could be anywhere from C− to B.
From Girard, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Girard workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,807 commuters (the 7% 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.
Who commutes out of Girard, and who commutes in
On a workday 3,681 residents head out to work, 296 work right here, and 1,947 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,700 people are in Girard on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
11% of working residents work in Youngstown
Where Girard clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 Girard’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Girard, 2013 → 2023: 2,537 → 2,243. 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 Girard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Girard
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 Girard commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,072 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). 4.7% of Girard households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Girard’s commuters take a bus or train.
Girard is 2,132nd of 2,806 U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Madeira OH | 9,637 | $168K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,130 | Central Township IL | 8,368 | $66K | 11.6% | 5.2% | 31% | C |
| 2,131 | Fowler CA | 7,745 | $67K | 19.3% | 7.1% | 8% | C |
| 2,132 | Girard OH | 9,384 | $53K | 20.0% | 4.9% | 7% | C |
| 2,133 | Munhall PA | 10,253 | $53K | 13.9% | 7.9% | 6% | C |
| 2,134 | Eagle Point OR | 9,861 | $84K | 10.0% | 13.9% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Girard, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 15% of Girard
The biggest share goes to Youngstown (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Girard workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girard | – | C | B+ | 18 min | $52,550 |
| Liberty Township | 4% | C+ | B− | 20 min | $57,269 |
| Youngstown | 11% | D | A− | 20 min | $34,408 |
| McKinley Heights | under 2% | C− | C | 14 min | $39,133 |
| Weathersfield Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 22 min | $51,927 |
| McDonald | under 2% | A− | C | 25 min | $81,855 |
| Vienna Township | under 2% | B | B | 19 min | $75,583 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Girard’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 Girard: questions
What is the median household income in Girard?
$52,550 (±$10,554) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Girard?
20.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Girard?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Girard work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Youngstown (11%, 5 mi), Boardman Township (7%, 10 mi), Warren (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Girard walkable?
Girard is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Girard 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 Girard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Girard
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.