Kalida draws 1,533 commuters a day, with 2.3 jobs for every working resident
Kalida has 1,641 jobs; 705 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Kalida is better than 76% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (B). Home is the office for 5% of workers (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Kalida apart
Jobs in Kalida have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Kalida went from 623 in 2013 to 1,641 in 2023, +163%. The jobs ↓
Kalida is where the jobs are
Kalida has 1,641 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, 63% more than the 1,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Kalida makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Kalida are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Kalida residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. 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 705 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Kalida: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Kalida’s grade up (1.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Kalida’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kalida could be anywhere from B− to A.
Kalida makes things: 67% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kalida, 2013 → 2023: 623 → 1,641. 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 Kalida’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Kalida
On a workday 597 residents head out to work and 108 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Kalida on a workday afternoon, 63% 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.
The daily trip into Kalida
Where Kalida clocks in
14% of workers
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.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Kalida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kalida workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 846 commuters (the 5% 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.
Miles to work from Kalida
About 17% 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 Kalida commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 887 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). 0.0% of Kalida households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kalida’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Kalida ranks: 807th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 805 | Alton IA | 1,254 | $98K | 2.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A− |
| 806 | Red Hook NY | 1,956 | $107K | 7.9% | 2.4% | 7% | A− |
| 807 | Kalida OH | 1,481 | $88K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 15% | A− |
| 808 | Clinton OH | 1,195 | $77K | 5.6% | 2.3% | 1% | A− |
| 809 | Dayton VA | 1,791 | $76K | 4.7% | 2.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Kalida, 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 Kalida: questions
What is the median household income in Kalida?
$87,500 (±$27,660) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kalida?
1.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kalida?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kalida work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lima (14%, 17 mi), Ottawa (8%, 8 mi), Findlay (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kalida walkable?
Kalida is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kalida without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kalida, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kalida
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.