Photo: Nyttend · Public domainPandora has lower household incomes than 66% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Pandora for work; outside it, Findlay is the main destination (10%, 18 miles). 2.9% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 13.3% for Ohio as a whole. Pandora grades 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
Why Pandora gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Pandora is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pandora’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Pandora’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, Pandora could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
The daily flow of workers through Pandora
On a workday 512 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 357 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Pandora on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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 trip to work from Pandora ends
Where Pandora clocks in
10% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
The kinds of work in Pandora
406 jobs are based in Pandora.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pandora, 2013 → 2023: 373 → 406. 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 Pandora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Pandora: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pandora workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 744 commuters (the 9% 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 it is to work from Pandora
About 19% 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.
Most trips from Pandora start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pandora is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 814 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). 0.0% of Pandora households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pandora’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Pandora is 1,251st among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,249 | Forreston IL | 1,402 | $71K | 5.7% | 7.8% | 8% | B |
| 1,250 | Jewell Junction IA | 1,238 | $81K | 6.5% | 2.1% | 9% | B |
| 1,251 | Pandora OH | 1,149 | $65K | 2.9% | 1.8% | 9% | B |
| 1,252 | Duboistown PA | 1,184 | $82K | 11.7% | 3.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,253 | Martindale TX | 1,298 | $78K | 13.4% | 4.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Pandora, 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 Pandora: questions
What is the median household income in Pandora?
$64,942 (±$8,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pandora?
2.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pandora?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pandora work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Findlay (10%, 18 mi), Ottawa (10%, 7 mi), Lima (9%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pandora walkable?
Pandora is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pandora without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pandora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pandora
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.