Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Levi Read · Public domainSaybrook Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Employers in Saybrook Township report 2,168 jobs, against 3,875 working residents. For jobs and income Saybrook Township is better than 20% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (C). Measured by household income, Saybrook Township is behind 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Saybrook Township apart
Jobs & income in Saybrook Township: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Saybrook Township’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.5%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Saybrook Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where people from Saybrook Township work
Where Saybrook Township clocks in
20% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Saybrook Township
On a workday 3,533 residents head out to work, 342 work right here, and 1,826 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,900 people are in Saybrook Township on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 kinds of work in Saybrook Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Saybrook Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,804 → 2,168. 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 Saybrook Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Saybrook Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Saybrook Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,701 commuters (the 8% 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.
Where in the region Saybrook Township works
About 20% 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.
Saybrook Township is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,026 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). 8.5% of Saybrook Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Saybrook Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Saybrook Township is 2,401st among 2,790 U.S. towns of 6,700 to 12,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Madeira OH | 9,637 | $168K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,399 | Bluefield WV | 9,158 | $49K | 18.5% | 4.4% | 16% | C− |
| 2,400 | Atchison KS | 10,789 | $54K | 15.8% | 5.3% | 40% | C− |
| 2,401 | Saybrook Township OH | 9,566 | $58K | 13.5% | 7.5% | 9% | C− |
| 2,402 | Oswego NY | 8,505 | $78K | 18.7% | 15.3% | 10% | C− |
| 2,403 | Winton CA | 11,797 | $57K | 14.0% | 12.1% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,790 | 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 Saybrook Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Bordering towns draw 24% of Saybrook Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Saybrook Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saybrook Township | – | C− | C | 22 min | $58,434 |
| Ashtabula Township | 4% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Ashtabula | 20% | D | B+ | 21 min | $44,120 |
| Geneva Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 28 min | $58,649 |
| Plymouth Township | under 2% | B− | D | 28 min | $70,455 |
| Austinburg Township | under 2% | B− | B | 28 min | $80,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Ashtabula Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Ashtabula. Darker towns draw more of Saybrook Township’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 Saybrook Township: questions
What is the median household income in Saybrook Township?
$58,434 (±$9,484) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Saybrook Township?
13.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Saybrook Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Saybrook Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashtabula (20%, 4 mi), Geneva (6%, 6 mi), Edgewood (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Saybrook Township walkable?
Saybrook Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Saybrook Township without a car?
1% 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 Saybrook Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Saybrook Township
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.