Salineville has lower household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Salineville are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 21.5% of residents are in poverty; Ohio has 13.3%. Home is the office for 4% of workers, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Salineville: the gist
Salineville is a place people come home to
There are 92 jobs based in Salineville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Salineville has about 820 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Salineville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Salineville workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 419 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Salineville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Salineville is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Salineville’s grade.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Salineville’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, Salineville could be anywhere from D− to D.
Salineville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 406 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 79 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Salineville on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.22 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.
About 32 minutes to work from Salineville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Salineville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 425 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.
8% of working residents work in Salem
Where Salineville clocks in
8% of workers
3% 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.
Goods jobs make up 32% of work in Salineville
92 jobs are based in Salineville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Salineville, 2013 → 2023: 149 → 92. 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 Salineville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Salineville
About 18% 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 Salineville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Salineville is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 441 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). 8.4% of Salineville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Salineville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Salineville next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 3,796th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,794 | Stover MO | 1,064 | $48K | 16.2% | 1.1% | 15% | D |
| 3,795 | Creighton NE | 1,113 | $50K | 14.5% | 4.3% | 29% | D |
| 3,796 | Salineville OH | 1,149 | $48K | 21.5% | 2.2% | 3% | D |
| 3,797 | Sophia WV | 1,076 | $36K | 38.0% | 12.4% | 4% | D |
| 3,798 | Manistique Township MI | 1,066 | $53K | 14.7% | 8.0% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Salineville, 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 Salineville: questions
What is the median household income in Salineville?
$47,917 (±$6,734) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Salineville?
21.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Salineville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Salineville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (8%, 20 mi), Lisbon (5%, 11 mi), Boardman Township (3%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Salineville walkable?
Salineville is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Salineville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Salineville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Salineville
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.