Photo: Sanfranman59 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Greentown commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Greentown is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns. Greentown has 733 jobs, and 1,465 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Greentown is better than 93% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Greentown’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.3%, 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, Greentown could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Greentown by day and by night
On a workday 1,439 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 707 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Greentown on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
14% of working residents work in Akron
Where Greentown clocks in
14% of workers
12% of workers
11% 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.
In Greentown, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greentown, 2013 → 2023: 597 → 733. 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 Greentown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Greentown takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greentown workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,175 commuters (the 20% 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 far Greentown’s workers travel
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.
Driving is how Greentown gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,460 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). 3.7% of Greentown households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greentown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000, Greentown comes 255th 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 253 | Robesonia PA | 2,181 | $91K | 3.9% | 0.7% | 3% | A |
| 254 | Westfield Township OH | 2,696 | $98K | 1.4% | 2.4% | 5% | A |
| 255 | Greentown OH | 2,993 | $114K | 2.2% | 3.3% | 2% | A |
| 256 | Emerald Mountain AL | 3,535 | $123K | 2.2% | 1.8% | 1% | A |
| 257 | Bryant WA | 2,648 | $122K | 1.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Greentown, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns around Greentown
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Greentown’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 Greentown: questions
What is the median household income in Greentown?
$114,355 (±$25,384) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greentown?
2.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greentown?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greentown work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Akron (14%, 12 mi), Jackson Township (12%, 6 mi), Canton (11%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greentown walkable?
Greentown is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greentown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greentown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greentown
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.