St. Louis Church · Photo: Roseohioresident · Public domainMost of Louisville commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 7% work in Louisville itself; outside it, Canton draws the most (16%, 6 miles). Employers in Louisville report 2,334 jobs, against 4,356 working residents. The two grades for Louisville are B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Louisville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Louisville is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #390 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Louisville’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($64,375, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Louisville could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who leaves Louisville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 4,034 residents head out to work, 322 work right here, and 2,012 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,900 people are in Louisville on a workday afternoon, 20% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Louisville’s residents
Where Louisville clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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.
The kinds of work in Louisville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Louisville, 2014 → 2024: 2,389 → 2,334. 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 Louisville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Louisville’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Louisville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,896 commuters (the 15% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Louisville
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.
In Louisville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Louisville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #149 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,561 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). 7.7% of Louisville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Louisville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,761 U.S. towns of 6,900 to 13,300, Louisville comes 1,138th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| 4 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
| 5 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,136 | Little Ferry NJ | 11,099 | $86K | 6.3% | 7.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,137 | Kingston Township PA | 7,231 | $77K | 3.5% | 4.3% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,138 | Louisville OH | 9,874 | $64K | 7.8% | 2.4% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,139 | Baugo Township IN | 9,595 | $81K | 8.9% | 3.5% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,140 | Wilton Manors FL | 11,655 | $85K | 11.4% | 4.3% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,761 | 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 Louisville, 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 Louisville: questions
What is the median household income in Louisville?
$64,375 (±$8,322) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Louisville?
7.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Louisville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Louisville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Canton (16%, 6 mi), Jackson Township (9%, 11 mi), Akron (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Louisville walkable?
Louisville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Louisville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Louisville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Louisville
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.