Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of St. Paris works elsewhere
4% of workers have no commute at all; Ohio has 13%. Employers in St. Paris report 369 jobs, against 666 working residents. The two grades for St. Paris are C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: St. Paris in brief
Where St. Paris’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Paris is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds St. Paris’ grade up (6.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($58,147, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Paris could be anywhere from C− to A−.
About 24 minutes each way for St. Paris’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Paris workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,099 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.
In and out of St. Paris on a workday
On a workday 635 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 338 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in St. Paris on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
10% of working residents work in Urbana
Where St. Paris clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in St. Paris: what the 369 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Paris, 2013 → 2023: 312 → 369. 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 St. Paris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from St. Paris
About 21% 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.
In St. Paris, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Paris is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place St. Paris near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,150 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). 5.7% of St. Paris households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Paris’ commuters take a bus or train.
2,790th of 5,656: where St. Paris ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,788 | Hallsville MO | 1,742 | $71K | 11.9% | 3.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,789 | Central Square NY | 1,852 | $70K | 15.1% | 4.8% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,790 | St. Paris OH | 1,884 | $58K | 6.5% | 5.9% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,791 | Cannon Beach OR | 1,512 | $69K | 4.5% | 3.0% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,792 | Pinedale WY | 1,997 | $59K | 11.1% | 0.0% | 33% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 St. Paris, 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 St. Paris: questions
What is the median household income in St. Paris?
$58,147 (±$9,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Paris?
6.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Paris?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Paris work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Urbana (10%, 11 mi), Johnson Township (8%, 2 mi), Troy (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Paris walkable?
St. Paris is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Paris without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Paris, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Paris
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.