Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Greenfield trail those of 91% of U.S. towns
For 4% of workers, the job is at home; Ohio has 13%. Below the poverty line: 20.0% of residents, against 13.3% across Ohio. Jobs and income earn Greenfield C−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Greenfield apart on work
Why Greenfield gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greenfield is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #884 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Greenfield’s grade up (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($46,875, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greenfield could be anywhere from D to C+.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Greenfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,500 commuters (the 4% 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.
How many people are in Greenfield by day
On a workday 1,298 residents head out to work, 312 work right here, and 1,647 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 (1.22 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.
6% of working residents work in Hillsboro
Where Greenfield clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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 kinds of work in Greenfield
1,959 jobs are based in Greenfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenfield, 2013 → 2023: 1,562 → 1,959. 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 Greenfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Greenfield
About 24% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Greenfield
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenfield is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns, #129 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Greenfield 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 1,557 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). 11.3% of Greenfield households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Greenfield is 3,244th of 4,039 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Beechwood Trails OH | 3,133 | $111K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Guilford Township OH | 3,158 | $112K | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,242 | Brookville PA | 3,883 | $60K | 12.8% | 6.4% | 29% | C− |
| 3,243 | Timberville VA | 3,166 | $60K | 17.1% | 5.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,244 | Greenfield OH | 4,329 | $47K | 20.0% | 2.9% | 19% | C− |
| 3,245 | Forks WA | 3,488 | $60K | 19.5% | 2.8% | 48% | C− |
| 3,246 | Elk Township OH | 3,217 | $61K | 21.2% | 3.5% | 18% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Greenfield, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Greenfield and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | – | C− | A− | 22 min | $46,875 |
| Madison Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $59,286 |
| Buckskin Township | under 2% | D | D | 25 min | $46,553 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenfield’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 Greenfield: questions
What is the median household income in Greenfield?
$46,875 (±$8,513) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenfield?
20.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenfield?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenfield work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hillsboro (6%, 15 mi), Wilmington (5%, 24 mi), Columbus (5%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenfield walkable?
Greenfield is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenfield
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.