Photo: Nyttend · Public domainNew Concord has higher unemployment (6.0%) than 74% of U.S. towns
The trip to work takes 19 minutes on average (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn New Concord C; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in ten work in New Concord; the top destination outside it is Zanesville (15%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in New Concord: the figures worth knowing
The four measures behind New Concord’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Concord is better than 25% of U.S. towns. Household income holds New Concord’s grade up ($70,313, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Concord could be anywhere from D to B+.
How far New Concord goes to work
About 33% 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.
Who commutes out of New Concord, and who commutes in
On a workday 803 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 1,242 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in New Concord on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 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.
The places New Concord commutes to
Where New Concord clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
Inside New Concord’s 1,343 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Concord, 2013 → 2023: 1,117 → 1,343. 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 New Concord’s own residents hold wherever they work.
New Concord’s commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Concord workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,092 commuters (the 7% 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.
Getting around New Concord: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Concord is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 23.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,175 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). 7.0% of New Concord households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Concord’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Concord next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300: 3,691st of 5,207 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,689 | Castle Point MO | 2,340 | $38K | 34.1% | 13.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,690 | Limon CO | 2,021 | $66K | 8.1% | 1.7% | 32% | C |
| 3,691 | New Concord OH | 2,473 | $70K | 15.7% | 6.0% | 11% | C |
| 3,692 | Vernonia OR | 2,412 | $83K | 10.0% | 6.6% | 12% | C |
| 3,693 | Homestead Township MI | 2,419 | $62K | 12.8% | 4.0% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 New Concord, 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 New Concord: questions
What is the median household income in New Concord?
$70,313 (±$17,702) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Concord?
15.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Concord?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Concord work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Zanesville (15%, 15 mi), Columbus (9%, 66 mi), Cambridge (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Concord walkable?
New Concord is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 23% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Concord without a car?
0% 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 New Concord, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Concord
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.