Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0Perry Heights has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 3% stay in Perry Heights for work; outside it, Canton is the main destination (17%, 5 miles). There are 1,540 jobs in Perry Heights, and 3,787 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Perry Heights 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 stands out about work in Perry Heights
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Perry Heights
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Perry Heights is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #443 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Perry Heights’ grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,601, 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, Perry Heights could be anywhere from B− to A−.
How far it is to work from Perry Heights
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.
How many people are in Perry Heights by day
On a workday 3,658 residents head out to work, 129 work right here, and 1,411 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,500 people are in Perry Heights 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.
Where Perry Heights goes to work
Where Perry Heights clocks in
17% of workers
13% 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 Perry Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perry Heights, 2013 → 2023: 1,441 → 1,540. 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 Perry Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 19 minutes from Perry Heights
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perry Heights workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,053 commuters (the 12% 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.
Most of Perry Heights commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perry Heights is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #186 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% 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 4,591 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). 5.5% of Perry Heights households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Perry Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Perry Heights is 1,317th of 2,927 U.S. towns of 6,100 to 11,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,315 | Union Township IN | 9,193 | $76K | 4.9% | 4.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,316 | Hopkinton RI | 8,393 | $97K | 7.0% | 5.1% | 7% | B |
| 1,317 | Perry Heights OH | 8,756 | $62K | 8.9% | 2.8% | 3% | B |
| 1,318 | Independence IA | 6,312 | $74K | 7.6% | 2.3% | 33% | B |
| 1,319 | Wilson PA | 8,159 | $83K | 10.5% | 4.1% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,927 | 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 Perry Heights, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work in the towns next to Perry Heights
The biggest share goes to Massillon (9%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perry Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Heights | – | B | B+ | 19 min | $61,601 |
| Massillon | 9% | C+ | B+ | 22 min | $56,446 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Perry 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 Perry Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Perry Heights?
$61,601 (±$6,956) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perry Heights?
8.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perry Heights?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perry Heights work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Canton (17%, 5 mi), Jackson Township (13%, 4 mi), Massillon (9%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perry Heights walkable?
Perry Heights is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perry Heights without a car?
2% 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 Perry Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perry 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.