Photo: Munroe Falls photographer · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Munroe Falls works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Munroe Falls B+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Munroe Falls has 1,029 jobs for 2,299 working residents. Only 2% work in Munroe Falls; the top destination outside it is Akron (19%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Munroe Falls in brief
Munroe Falls and Akron trade workers both ways
Akron is the top workplace for Munroe Falls residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Munroe Falls come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Munroe Falls makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Munroe Falls are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Munroe Falls residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Munroe Falls
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Munroe Falls is better than 74% of U.S. towns, #336 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 82% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($81,214, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Munroe Falls could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
Commuting out of Munroe Falls: the destinations
Where Munroe Falls clocks in
19% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Munroe Falls works in goods: 35% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Munroe Falls, 2013 → 2023: 852 → 1,029. 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 Munroe Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Munroe Falls
On a workday 2,254 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 984 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Munroe Falls on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
About 23 minutes each way for Munroe Falls’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Munroe Falls workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,876 commuters (the 14% 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.
How far Munroe Falls’ workers travel
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.
Munroe Falls is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Munroe Falls is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns, #178 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,175 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). 10.1% of Munroe Falls households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Munroe Falls’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,692 U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,700, Munroe Falls comes 1,050th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 33 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Sharon Township OH | 6,117 | $126K | 1.8% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,048 | Barkhamsted CT | 3,726 | $124K | 3.6% | 6.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,049 | Salem Township PA | 4,092 | $79K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,050 | Munroe Falls OH | 4,973 | $81K | 7.3% | 3.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,051 | Frankford Township NJ | 5,368 | $117K | 3.0% | 5.0% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,052 | Springfield Township PA | 6,186 | $122K | 9.2% | 4.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Munroe Falls, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 17% of Munroe Falls
The biggest share goes to Cuyahoga Falls (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Munroe Falls workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munroe Falls | – | B+ | B+ | 23 min | $81,214 |
| Tallmadge | 4% | A− | C+ | 25 min | $89,410 |
| Stow | 6% | A− | B | 24 min | $93,727 |
| Cuyahoga Falls | 7% | B+ | B− | 22 min | $72,705 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Munroe Falls’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 Munroe Falls: questions
What is the median household income in Munroe Falls?
$81,214 (±$24,071) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Munroe Falls?
7.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Munroe Falls?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Munroe Falls work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Akron (19%, 6 mi), Cuyahoga Falls (7%, 7 mi), Stow (6%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Munroe Falls walkable?
Munroe Falls is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Munroe Falls without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Munroe Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Munroe Falls
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.