Photo: WeaponizingArchitecture · CC BY-SA 4.0Massillon has lower household incomes than 79% of U.S. towns
About one in five stay in Massillon for work; outside it, Canton is the main destination (12%, 8 miles). Poverty touches 13.9% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. For jobs and income Massillon is better than 43% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Massillon at work: what stands out
Jobs & income in Massillon: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Massillon’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($56,446, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Massillon could be anywhere from C to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Massillon
On a workday 12,074 residents head out to work, 2,689 work right here, and 12,674 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 (1.04 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 people from Massillon work
Where Massillon clocks in
12% of workers
11% 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.
Massillon makes things: 34% of its jobs are in goods
15,363 jobs are based in Massillon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Massillon, 2013 → 2023: 15,831 → 15,363. 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 Massillon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Massillon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Massillon workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14,347 commuters (the 10% 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.
Half of Massillon commutes less than 9 miles
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.
Few in Massillon walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% 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 15,892 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). 6.9% of Massillon households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Massillon’s commuters take a bus or train.
942nd of 1,257: where Massillon ranks among U.S. towns of 23,000 to 43,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| 6 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 940 | Hamilton Township NJ | 28,845 | $79K | 8.8% | 10.8% | 10% | C+ |
| 941 | Lancaster TX | 40,526 | $68K | 15.0% | 7.2% | 5% | C+ |
| 942 | Massillon OH | 32,168 | $56K | 13.9% | 4.4% | 18% | C+ |
| 943 | Drexel Heights AZ | 27,675 | $74K | 14.6% | 5.3% | 3% | C+ |
| 944 | Maywood IL | 23,330 | $69K | 15.5% | 7.7% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,257 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 Massillon, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 13% of Massillon
The biggest share goes to Jackson Township (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Massillon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massillon | – | C+ | B+ | 22 min | $56,446 |
| Tuscarawas Township | under 2% | A− | C | 23 min | $87,150 |
| Perry Township | 2% | B+ | B− | 19 min | $68,771 |
| Jackson Township | 11% | A | B− | 22 min | $93,927 |
| Perry Heights | under 2% | B | B+ | 19 min | $61,601 |
| Bethlehem Township | under 2% | B+ | B | 21 min | $71,161 |
| Navarre | under 2% | B− | A− | 21 min | $59,542 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Massillon’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Massillon: questions
What is the median household income in Massillon?
$56,446 (±$3,625) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Massillon?
13.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Massillon?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Massillon work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Canton (12%, 8 mi), Jackson Township (11%, 6 mi), Akron (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Massillon walkable?
Massillon is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Massillon without a car?
1% 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 Massillon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Massillon
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.