Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Millbury commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Millbury itself; outside it, Toledo draws the most (26%, 11 miles). Millbury has 25 jobs, against 525 working residents. Jobs and income earn Millbury B; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Millbury, in brief
Where Millbury’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Millbury is better than 63% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Millbury’s grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Millbury’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, Millbury could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Millbury by day and by night
On a workday 522 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Millbury on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Millbury’s working residents head each day
Where Millbury clocks in
26% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 56% of the jobs in Millbury
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Millbury, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 25. 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 Millbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Millbury: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Millbury workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 588 commuters (the 6% 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.
The commute from Millbury, by distance
About 15% 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.
In Millbury, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Millbury is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Millbury near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 627 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Millbury households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Millbury’s commuters take a bus or train.
Millbury is 951st of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 41 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 949 | Pickford Township MI | 1,541 | $100K | 1.7% | 4.6% | 6% | B |
| 950 | Butler Township OH | 1,431 | $94K | 7.7% | 3.1% | 2% | B |
| 951 | Millbury OH | 1,211 | $81K | 11.2% | 3.5% | 1% | B |
| 952 | Fletcher VT | 1,380 | $106K | 3.8% | 0.9% | 1% | B |
| 953 | Norrie WI | 1,037 | $93K | 5.1% | 0.4% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Millbury, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Millbury: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Lake Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Millbury workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millbury | – | B | C | 23 min | $80,833 |
| Lake Township | 7% | B− | C | 23 min | $72,222 |
| Clay Township | under 3% | B+ | C | 25 min | $86,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Millbury’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 Millbury: questions
What is the median household income in Millbury?
$80,833 (±$11,974) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Millbury?
11.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Millbury?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Millbury work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toledo (26%, 11 mi), Lake Township (7%, 2 mi), Perrysburg Township (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Millbury walkable?
Millbury is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Millbury without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Millbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Millbury
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.