Shreve has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
393 jobs are based in Shreve, and 710 of its residents work somewhere. Shreve grades C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. For 1% of workers, the job is at home; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Shreve at work: what stands out
Shreve makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Shreve are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Shreve residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Few Shreve workers work from home
Only 1% 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 710 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Shreve earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Shreve is better than 42% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Shreve’s grade.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Shreve’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, Shreve could be anywhere from C to B.
A place that makes things: 49% of Shreve’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shreve, 2013 → 2023: 383 → 393. 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 Shreve’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Shreve, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shreve workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 850 commuters (the 1% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Shreve
On a workday 659 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 342 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Shreve on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
26% of working residents work in Wooster
Where Shreve clocks in
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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Shreve
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.
Shreve is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shreve is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 861 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). 4.4% of Shreve households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shreve’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shreve places 2,739th of 6,308 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 31 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,737 | Dauphin Island AL | 1,929 | $67K | 6.6% | 14.3% | 21% | C+ |
| 2,738 | Princeville IL | 1,713 | $76K | 14.2% | 1.4% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,739 | Shreve OH | 1,495 | $66K | 10.3% | 1.7% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,740 | Ilwaco WA | 1,112 | $98K | 9.5% | 0.0% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,741 | Benona Township MI | 1,446 | $78K | 7.7% | 1.2% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Shreve, 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 Shreve: questions
What is the median household income in Shreve?
$66,220 (±$6,598) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shreve?
10.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shreve?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shreve work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wooster (26%, 11 mi), Wooster Township (5%, 6 mi), Akron (3%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shreve walkable?
Shreve is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shreve without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shreve, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shreve
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.