Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0Orrville draws 5,986 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
About one in four work in Orrville; the top destination outside it is Wooster (16%, 8 miles). Orrville has 6,953 jobs; 3,832 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Orrville are B for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Orrville
Orrville is where the jobs are
Orrville has 6,953 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Orrville makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Orrville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Orrville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Orrville draws workers from far and wide
The 6,953 jobs in Orrville are filled from a wide area. Orrville’s own residents hold 14% and the ten next-biggest home towns 29%; the other 57% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
The four measures behind Orrville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Orrville is better than 55% of U.S. towns, #558 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Orrville’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Orrville could be anywhere from C to A−.
Orrville fills up on a workday
On a workday 2,865 residents head out to work and 967 work right here.
About 12,000 people are in Orrville on a workday afternoon, 37% more 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.
In Orrville, 40% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orrville, 2013 → 2023: 6,786 → 6,953. 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 Orrville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Orrville’s workers come from
Where Orrville clocks in
3% of workers
2% 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 long Orrville spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orrville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,952 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 distance from Orrville 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.
Driving is how Orrville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orrville is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #260 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,188 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). 5.9% of Orrville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Orrville’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,588th of 2,981: where Orrville ranks among U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Madeira OH | 9,637 | $168K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
| 26 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,586 | High Springs FL | 6,762 | $94K | 13.5% | 2.9% | 5% | B |
| 1,587 | Haysville KS | 11,353 | $68K | 11.9% | 3.7% | 8% | B |
| 1,588 | Orrville OH | 8,461 | $73K | 15.2% | 3.0% | 25% | B |
| 1,589 | Makawao HI | 7,353 | $96K | 10.2% | 3.4% | 5% | B |
| 1,590 | Auburn GA | 10,110 | $77K | 11.7% | 4.6% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Orrville, 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 Orrville: questions
What is the median household income in Orrville?
$72,569 (±$11,271) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orrville?
15.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orrville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orrville work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wooster (16%, 8 mi), Akron (3%, 21 mi), East Union Township (2%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Orrville walkable?
Orrville is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orrville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orrville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orrville
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.