John Hosford House · Photo: Krootphotog · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 1.8 jobs in Monroeville for every working resident, and 1,029 people commute in
1,090 jobs are based in Monroeville, and 617 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Monroeville B−; getting around on foot earns it D. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Monroeville
Monroeville is where the jobs are
Monroeville has 1,090 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Monroeville and Norwalk trade workers both ways
Norwalk is the top workplace for Monroeville residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Monroeville come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Monroeville makes and builds things
59% of the jobs based in Monroeville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Monroeville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. 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 617 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Monroeville
On income, poverty and job access, Monroeville is better than 48% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Monroeville’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($64,563, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Monroeville’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, Monroeville could be anywhere from C to B+.
Who commutes out of Monroeville, and who commutes in
On a workday 556 residents head out to work and 61 work right here.
About 1,800 people are in Monroeville on a workday afternoon, 37% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 the people who work in Monroeville live
Where Monroeville clocks in
17% of workers
6% 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.
59% of the jobs in Monroeville make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monroeville, 2013 → 2023: 1,171 → 1,090. 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 Monroeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Monroeville: about 19 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monroeville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 734 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.
Where in the region Monroeville works
About 20% 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.
Getting around Monroeville: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Monroeville is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 771 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). 2.9% of Monroeville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Monroeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Monroeville next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,762nd of 4,866 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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| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,760 | Montour Township PA | 1,260 | $68K | 9.5% | 5.8% | 2% | B− |
| 1,761 | Geronimo TX | 1,507 | $72K | 12.7% | 1.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,762 | Monroeville OH | 1,283 | $65K | 7.2% | 5.0% | 10% | B− |
| 1,763 | Dollar Point CA | 1,477 | $77K | 3.5% | 8.8% | 8% | B− |
| 1,764 | Ama LA | 1,483 | $73K | 17.7% | 2.3% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Monroeville, 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 Monroeville: questions
What is the median household income in Monroeville?
$64,563 (±$13,095) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monroeville?
7.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monroeville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monroeville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Norwalk (17%, 5 mi), Perkins Township (6%, 10 mi), Sandusky (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Monroeville walkable?
Monroeville is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Monroeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monroeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monroeville
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.