Photo: Nyttend · Public domainNewburgh Heights has lower unemployment (2.0%) than 85% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 4% of workers; Ohio has 13%. Jobs and income earn Newburgh Heights B+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Hardly any work in Newburgh Heights itself; outside it, Cleveland draws the most (31%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Newburgh Heights, in a few figures
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Newburgh Heights’ working residents have a job less than 7 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 50 minutes, longer than the Ohio average of 23. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Newburgh Heights works one town over
35% of working residents work in a town that borders Newburgh Heights: Cleveland (31%) and Cuyahoga Heights (4%). Next door ↓
Newburgh Heights makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Newburgh Heights are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Newburgh Heights residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. 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 743 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Newburgh Heights gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Newburgh Heights is better than 74% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Newburgh Heights’ grade up (ahead of 95% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($64,542, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Newburgh Heights could be anywhere from B− to A.
The trip to work from Newburgh Heights: about 50 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newburgh Heights workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,052 commuters (the 4% 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.
In Newburgh Heights, 58% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
590 jobs are based in Newburgh Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newburgh Heights, 2013 → 2023: 557 → 590. 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 Newburgh Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Newburgh Heights
On a workday 740 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 587 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 (0.79 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 Newburgh Heights goes to work
Where Newburgh Heights clocks in
31% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
How far Newburgh Heights goes to work
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.
For most of Newburgh Heights, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Newburgh Heights is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% 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 1,100 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 66% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 74% 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). 4.4% of Newburgh Heights households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Newburgh Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400, Newburgh Heights comes 889th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 22 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 887 | Caledonia WI | 1,755 | $109K | 6.5% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 888 | Catlin IL | 1,912 | $72K | 3.9% | 1.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 889 | Newburgh Heights OH | 1,801 | $65K | 9.5% | 2.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 890 | Jacobus PA | 1,838 | $114K | 2.1% | 7.2% | 0% | B+ |
| 891 | Franconia Township MN | 1,757 | $117K | 10.7% | 5.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Newburgh Heights, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work next door: 35% of Newburgh Heights’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Newburgh Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newburgh Heights | – | B+ | B+ | 50 min | $64,542 |
| Cleveland | 31% | C− | A+ | 23 min | $40,801 |
| Cuyahoga Heights | 4% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cuyahoga Heights: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cleveland. Darker towns draw more of Newburgh Heights’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 Newburgh Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Newburgh Heights?
$64,542 (±$14,261) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newburgh Heights?
9.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newburgh Heights?
50 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newburgh Heights work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (31%, 2 mi), Cuyahoga Heights (4%, 1 mi), Independence (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Newburgh Heights walkable?
Newburgh Heights is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 13.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Newburgh Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 66% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newburgh Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newburgh Heights
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.