Stryker Depot · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainStryker at work: jobs, income and the commute
4% of workers have no commute at all, where Ohio as a whole has 13%. Jobs and income earn Stryker B; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 5% work in Stryker; the top destination outside it is Bryan (19%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Stryker apart on work
Stryker makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Stryker are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Stryker residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 41%. The jobs ↓
Few Stryker 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; with 556 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Stryker earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Stryker is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Stryker’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Stryker’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Stryker could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Goods, not services: 49% of the jobs in Stryker
399 jobs are based in Stryker.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stryker, 2013 → 2023: 405 → 399. 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 Stryker’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes each way for Stryker’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stryker workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 668 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.
How a workday changes Stryker
On a workday 530 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 373 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Stryker on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.72 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.
Out of Stryker to work: where people go
Where Stryker clocks in
19% of workers
11% 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.
How far Stryker goes to work
About 15% 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.
Stryker is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stryker is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 694 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). 2.5% of Stryker households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stryker’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Stryker is 1,241st of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,239 | Valley Township KS | 1,326 | $90K | 8.3% | 7.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,240 | Excelsior WI | 1,616 | $92K | 8.4% | 2.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,241 | Stryker OH | 1,239 | $73K | 4.7% | 2.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,242 | Brothertown WI | 1,282 | $72K | 7.1% | 1.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,243 | Scott WI | 1,371 | $88K | 7.3% | 6.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Stryker, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Stryker compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Stryker workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stryker | – | B | C− | 19 min | $72,569 |
| Springfield Township | under 3% | A− | C− | 20 min | $80,724 |
| Brady Township | under 3% | C+ | C | 20 min | $72,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Stryker’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 Stryker: questions
What is the median household income in Stryker?
$72,569 (±$16,769) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stryker?
4.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stryker?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stryker work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bryan (19%, 7 mi), Archbold (11%, 6 mi), Defiance (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stryker walkable?
Stryker is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stryker without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stryker, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stryker
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.