Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Hillsboro has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 4,161 people commute in to work
Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. Employers in Hillsboro report 4,830 jobs, and 2,670 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Hillsboro D; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hillsboro, in a few figures
Hillsboro is where the jobs are
Hillsboro has 4,830 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Hillsboro’s commute
The biggest draw, Wilmington, gets only 8% of working residents, and 50% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Hillsboro residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Few Hillsboro workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Hillsboro’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hillsboro is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #933 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Hillsboro’s grade up (5.3%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hillsboro could be anywhere from D to C+.
In and out of Hillsboro on a workday
On a workday 2,001 residents head out to work and 669 work right here.
About 8,900 people are in Hillsboro on a workday afternoon, 32% more than live here.
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 daily trip into Hillsboro
Where Hillsboro clocks in
8% 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.
Hillsboro’s commute takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hillsboro workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,642 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.
The kinds of work in Hillsboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hillsboro, 2014 → 2024: 4,628 → 4,830. 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 Hillsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Hillsboro to work
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Hillsboro gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hillsboro is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #194 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.4% 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 2,759 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). 12.5% of Hillsboro households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hillsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,700 to 9,100, Hillsboro ranks 2,925th of 3,253 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Pepper Pike OH | 6,886 | $228K | 1.8% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Independence OH | 7,456 | $116K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,923 | Wilna NY | 5,492 | $60K | 19.2% | 5.2% | 17% | D |
| 2,924 | Albion NY | 7,546 | $50K | 17.7% | 6.9% | 18% | D |
| 2,925 | Hillsboro OH | 6,763 | $56K | 21.7% | 5.3% | 25% | D |
| 2,926 | Sallisaw OK | 8,790 | $48K | 29.5% | 4.8% | 33% | D |
| 2,927 | Milton-Freewater OR | 7,029 | $52K | 12.6% | 7.3% | 20% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,253 | 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 Hillsboro, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Hillsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Hillsboro?
$55,521 (±$7,182) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hillsboro?
21.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hillsboro?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hillsboro work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (8%, 19 mi), Columbus (4%, 63 mi), Liberty Township (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hillsboro walkable?
Hillsboro is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hillsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hillsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hillsboro
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.