Photo: JonRidinger · CC BY 3.0Where Hiram earns its living
Only 3% work in Hiram itself; outside it, Cleveland draws the most (7%, 30 miles). The two grades for Hiram are B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 29% of workers work from home, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Hiram
Home offices are common in Hiram
29% of Hiram workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Hiram are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 391 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Hiram’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Hiram is better than 48% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Hiram’s grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.5%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Household income is not adjusted: student households count in the median.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hiram could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Hiram
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hiram workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 367 commuters (the 29% 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.
In and out of Hiram on a workday
On a workday 378 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 291 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 (0.78 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.
Where the trip to work from Hiram ends
Where Hiram clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
In Hiram, services account for most jobs
304 jobs are based in Hiram.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hiram, 2013 → 2023: 384 → 304. 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 Hiram’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Hiram works
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.
In Hiram, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hiram is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 33.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 517 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). 7.0% of Hiram households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hiram’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hiram places 1,076th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 35 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Granville South OH | 1,146 | $131K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,074 | Felton DE | 1,386 | $60K | 7.0% | 2.7% | 2% | B− |
| 1,075 | Vass NC | 1,062 | $74K | 6.7% | 3.9% | 2% | B− |
| 1,076 | Hiram OH | 1,000 | $75K | 14.8% | 5.5% | 3% | B− |
| 1,077 | Bessemer PA | 1,038 | $66K | 10.8% | 5.2% | 2% | B− |
| 1,078 | Jasper Township MI | 1,073 | $80K | 7.1% | 4.9% | 0% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Hiram, 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 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 Hiram: questions
What is the median household income in Hiram?
$75,313 (±$32,141) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hiram?
14.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hiram?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hiram work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (7%, 30 mi), Akron (5%, 25 mi), Aurora (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hiram walkable?
Hiram is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 33% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hiram without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hiram, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hiram
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.