Photo: Chamberednautilus · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Granville are higher than in 90% of U.S. towns
2.7% of residents live below the poverty line, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. For jobs and income Granville is better than 94% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (A). Home is the office for 25% of workers, against 13% across Ohio.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Granville in brief
Granville trades workers with the towns around it
Granville has about as many jobs (2,704) as working residents (2,281), but they are mostly different people: 1,997 residents leave for work each day while 2,420 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Granville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Granville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Granville is Columbus, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 23% of working residents (535) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of Granville works from home
25% of Granville workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Granville is services
91% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 4% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The figures behind Granville’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate is its strongest input; unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Granville could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Who works in Granville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,997 residents head out to work, 284 work right here, and 2,420 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The distance from Granville to work
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Granville’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Granville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,086 commuters (the 25% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Granville
2,704 jobs are based in Granville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Granville, 2014 → 2024: 2,140 → 2,704. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Granville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
23% of working residents work in Columbus
Where Granville clocks in
23% of workers
13% of workers
2% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Granville
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 36.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,773 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). 5.3% of Granville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Granville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Granville next to U.S. towns of 4,400 to 8,400: 243rd of 3,297 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Pepper Pike OH | 6,886 | $228K | 1.8% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Independence OH | 7,456 | $116K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 241 | Fairlawn OH | 7,815 | $97K | 4.1% | 2.2% | 6% | A |
| 242 | Holland WI | 4,512 | $120K | 0.7% | 1.0% | 1% | A |
| 243 | Granville OH | 6,252 | $124K | 2.7% | 2.9% | 12% | A |
| 244 | Sherman IL | 4,644 | $149K | 2.2% | 2.6% | 5% | A |
| 245 | Hales Corners WI | 7,740 | $88K | 3.5% | 2.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,297 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Granville, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns next door employ 14% of Granville
The biggest share goes to Newark (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Granville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granville | – | A | A | 22 min | $124,408 |
| Granville Township | 1% | A | A− | 23 min | $135,843 |
| Newark | 13% | C+ | B+ | 23 min | $61,670 |
| Union Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 24 min | $95,347 |
| Granville South | under 2% | A+ | D− | 18 min | $131,307 |
| Newark Township | under 2% | A− | C | 27 min | $78,879 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Granville’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 2024, 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 Granville: questions
What is the median household income in Granville?
$124,408 (±$13,895) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Granville?
2.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Granville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Granville work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (23%, 26 mi), Newark (13%, 4 mi), New Albany (2%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Granville walkable?
Granville is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 36% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Granville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Granville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Granville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.