Photo: Ohio Redevelopment Projects - ODSA · CC BY 2.0Struthers has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Measured by household income, Struthers is behind 83% of U.S. towns. 1,982 jobs are based in Struthers; 4,414 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Struthers C+; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Struthers and work: the main findings
Inside Struthers’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Struthers is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #766 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Struthers’ grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($53,447, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Struthers could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Struthers works in goods: 38% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Struthers, 2013 → 2023: 2,228 → 1,982. 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 Struthers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Struthers
On a workday 4,027 residents head out to work, 387 work right here, and 1,595 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,400 people are in Struthers on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
16% of working residents work in Boardman Township
Where Struthers clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
4% 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.
About 22 minutes each way, about the OH average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Struthers workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,124 commuters (the 12% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Struthers
About 17% 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.
Most of Struthers commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Struthers is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns, #476 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Struthers 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 4,689 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). 4.2% of Struthers households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Struthers’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Struthers is 1,992nd of 2,761 U.S. towns of 6,900 to 13,300
| # | 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+ |
| 4 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 5 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,990 | Cloquet MN | 12,399 | $61K | 15.9% | 4.0% | 34% | C+ |
| 1,991 | Fallon NV | 9,570 | $73K | 12.5% | 3.5% | 30% | C+ |
| 1,992 | Struthers OH | 9,837 | $53K | 15.0% | 4.7% | 9% | C+ |
| 1,993 | Green River WY | 11,450 | $85K | 9.3% | 5.6% | 28% | C+ |
| 1,994 | Memphis FL | 9,185 | $75K | 14.2% | 8.1% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,761 | 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 Struthers, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Struthers and its neighbors: 16% work next door
The biggest share goes to Youngstown (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Struthers workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Struthers | – | C+ | B− | 22 min | $53,447 |
| Poland Township | 2% | A | C− | 22 min | $94,563 |
| Lowellville | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Coitsville Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 33 min | $58,750 |
| Campbell | under 2% | D | C− | 22 min | $42,909 |
| Youngstown | 14% | D | A− | 20 min | $34,408 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lowellville: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Struthers’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 Struthers: questions
What is the median household income in Struthers?
$53,447 (±$3,183) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Struthers?
15.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Struthers?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Struthers work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boardman Township (16%, 4 mi), Youngstown (14%, 4 mi), Austintown (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Struthers walkable?
Struthers is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Struthers without a car?
2% 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 Struthers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Struthers
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.