Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Smithville
A typical one-way commute lasts 16 minutes; Ohio averages 23, the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Smithville B+; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in ten work in Smithville itself; outside it, Wooster draws the most (22%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Smithville apart on work
Most Smithville residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 8% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Commutes from Smithville are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker. 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 606 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Smithville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Smithville is better than 66% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Smithville’s grade up (6.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($71,944, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Smithville’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, Smithville could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Half of Smithville commutes less than 6 miles
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.
Each way, about 16 minutes from Smithville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Smithville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 577 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.
In and out of Smithville on a workday
On a workday 555 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 658 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).
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 people from Smithville work
Where Smithville clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
Inside Smithville’s 709 jobs
709 jobs are based in Smithville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Smithville, 2013 → 2023: 667 → 709. 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 Smithville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Smithville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Smithville is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% 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 640 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). 4.8% of Smithville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Smithville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Smithville places 1,087th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,085 | Plano KY | 1,290 | $80K | 5.3% | 8.6% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,086 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,087 | Smithville OH | 1,333 | $72K | 6.7% | 1.8% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,088 | Lancaster Township IL | 1,351 | $91K | 6.6% | 2.5% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,089 | Bridgewater Township MI | 1,551 | $103K | 7.8% | 2.3% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Smithville, 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 Smithville: questions
What is the median household income in Smithville?
$71,944 (±$8,800) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Smithville?
6.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Smithville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Smithville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wooster (22%, 5 mi), Orrville (12%, 4 mi), Green Township (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Smithville walkable?
Smithville is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Smithville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Smithville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Smithville
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.