Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJackson Center has 2.7 jobs for every working resident: 1,647 people commute in to work
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole. Employers in Jackson Center report 1,720 jobs, and 642 of its residents work somewhere. Jackson Center grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Jackson Center apart on work
Jackson Center makes and builds things
87% of the jobs based in Jackson Center are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Jackson Center residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 38%. The jobs ↓
Jackson Center is where the jobs are
Jackson Center has 1,720 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,500 people are in town, 75% more than the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Jackson Center have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Jackson Center went from 723 in 2013 to 1,720 in 2023, +138%. The jobs ↓
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 642 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Jackson Center
On income, poverty and job access, Jackson Center is better than 26% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Jackson Center’s grade.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Jackson Center’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Jackson Center could be anywhere from D to B.
Jackson Center works in goods: 87% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jackson Center, 2013 → 2023: 723 → 1,720. 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 Jackson Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Jackson Center
On a workday 569 residents head out to work and 73 work right here.
About 2,500 people are in Jackson Center on a workday afternoon, 75% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Jackson Center, and from where
Where Jackson Center clocks in
14% 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.
Jackson Center’s commute takes about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jackson Center workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 649 commuters (the 2% 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 it is to work from Jackson Center
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Jackson Center commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jackson Center is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 665 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). 9.6% of Jackson Center households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jackson Center’s commuters take a bus or train.
Jackson Center is 3,943rd of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,941 | Oakland NE | 1,337 | $69K | 10.9% | 0.0% | 19% | C |
| 3,942 | West Liberty OH | 1,756 | $52K | 11.2% | 2.1% | 5% | C |
| 3,943 | Jackson Center OH | 1,446 | $65K | 13.7% | 5.2% | 11% | C |
| 3,944 | Buffalo City WI | 1,009 | $61K | 8.2% | 2.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,945 | Varick NY | 1,635 | $80K | 17.6% | 6.1% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Jackson Center, 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 Jackson Center: questions
What is the median household income in Jackson Center?
$64,900 (±$5,940) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jackson Center?
13.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jackson Center?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jackson Center work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sidney (14%, 12 mi), Anna (5%, 7 mi), Franklin Township (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jackson Center walkable?
Jackson Center is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jackson Center without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jackson Center, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jackson Center
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.