Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Strasburg (0.3%) is lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income B+: better than 69% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #378 of 992 in Ohio.
Walkability B: more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns · #273 of 993 in Ohio.
Household incomes here are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 24 minutes each way (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). Only 5% work in Strasburg; the top destination outside it is Dover (9%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Strasburg, in brief
Strasburg makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Strasburg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Strasburg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 38%. The jobs ↓
Few Strasburg 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.
What’s behind Strasburg’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Strasburg is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #378 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Strasburg’s grade up (0.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($64,330, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Strasburg could be anywhere from B− to A.
Strasburg makes things: 40% of its jobs are in goods
709 jobs are based in Strasburg. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Strasburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strasburg, 2013 → 2023: 714 → 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.
About 24 minutes each way, about the OH average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strasburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,201 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.
Strasburg quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,110 residents head out to work, 60 work right here, and 649 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Strasburg on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.61 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.
9% of working residents work in Dover
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Strasburg clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Strasburg commutes less than 13 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 16% 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.
Most trips from Strasburg start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Strasburg is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #273 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% 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 1,251 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 Strasburg households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Strasburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Strasburg is 1,287th of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Strasburg, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,285 | Creston OH | 2,143 | $69K | 4.8% | 3.8% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,286 | Redwood TX | 3,441 | $89K | 2.2% | 7.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,287 | Strasburg OH | 2,759 | $64K | 9.9% | 0.3% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,288 | Carey OH | 3,529 | $75K | 7.3% | 1.0% | 23% | B+ |
| 1,289 | Seville OH | 2,347 | $77K | 8.6% | 2.9% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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.
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 Strasburg: questions
What is the median household income in Strasburg?
$64,330 (±$10,929) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strasburg?
9.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strasburg?
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 Strasburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (9%, 6 mi), Canton (6%, 17 mi), New Philadelphia (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Strasburg walkable?
Strasburg is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Strasburg 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 Strasburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strasburg
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.