Photo: Tony Alter · CC BY 2.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Riverside works elsewhere
Employers in Riverside report 4,731 jobs for 9,734 working residents. Jobs and income earn Riverside C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 4% work in Riverside; the top destination outside it is Dayton (21%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Riverside apart
A lot of Riverside works one town over
38% of working residents work in a town that borders Riverside: Dayton (21%), Beavercreek (8%) and Kettering (6%). Next door ↓
Most Riverside residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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.
How Riverside earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Riverside is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #772 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Riverside’s grade up (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.6%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Riverside could be anywhere from C to B−.
How far it is to work from Riverside
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 leaves Riverside for work, and who comes in
On a workday 9,372 residents head out to work, 362 work right here, and 4,369 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20,000 people are in Riverside on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
The places Riverside commutes to
Where Riverside clocks in
21% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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 Riverside
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riverside, 2013 → 2023: 5,332 → 4,731. 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 Riverside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Riverside spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riverside workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,570 commuters (the 10% 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.
Few in Riverside walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Riverside is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns, #213 of 993 in Ohio. 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 11,710 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 86% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 17% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% 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). 4.9% of Riverside households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Riverside’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 17,000 to 33,000, Riverside ranks 1,302nd of 1,642 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| 4 | Powell OH | 18,269 | $195K | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Genoa Township OH | 27,720 | $177K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,300 | Sunland Park NM | 18,268 | $63K | 22.4% | 4.6% | 8% | C+ |
| 1,301 | Candler-McAfee GA | 20,905 | $65K | 14.7% | 12.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,302 | Riverside OH | 24,706 | $61K | 15.3% | 6.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,303 | Stephenville TX | 21,793 | $53K | 20.0% | 7.3% | 34% | C+ |
| 1,304 | Zion IL | 24,447 | $63K | 16.0% | 6.7% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,642 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Riverside, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 38% of Riverside
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Riverside workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | – | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $61,352 |
| Dayton | 21% | C− | A+ | 20 min | $45,247 |
| Huber Heights | 3% | B+ | B+ | 23 min | $79,131 |
| Harrison Township | under 3% | C− | A | 21 min | $45,125 |
| Beavercreek Township | under 3% | A | C+ | 21 min | $116,743 |
| Beavercreek | 8% | A− | C+ | 20 min | $110,088 |
| Wright-Patterson AFB | under 3% | A− | A | 13 min | $89,615 |
| Bath Township | under 3% | B− | A− | 21 min | $62,856 |
| Kettering | 6% | B+ | A− | 20 min | $74,681 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Dayton. Darker towns draw more of Riverside’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 Riverside: questions
What is the median household income in Riverside?
$61,352 (±$5,366) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riverside?
15.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riverside?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riverside work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dayton (21%, 4 mi), Beavercreek (8%, 4 mi), Kettering (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Riverside walkable?
Riverside is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Riverside without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 17% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riverside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riverside
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.