Suffield’s household incomes are lower than in 71% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 8.4% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. Jobs and income earn Suffield B; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 1% stay in Suffield for work; outside it, Akron is the main destination (18%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Suffield, in a few figures
Suffield makes and builds things
59% of the jobs based in Suffield are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Suffield residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Suffield and Akron trade workers both ways
Akron is the top workplace for Suffield residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Suffield come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 421 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Suffield: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Suffield is better than 57% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Suffield’s grade up (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,667, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Suffield’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, Suffield could be anywhere from C to A.
Goods, not services: 59% of the jobs in Suffield
385 jobs are based in Suffield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Suffield, 2013 → 2023: 490 → 385. 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 Suffield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Suffield goes to work
Where Suffield clocks in
18% of workers
4% 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.
A workday in Suffield: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 416 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 380 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 (0.91 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.
About 25 minutes each way, about the OH average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Suffield workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 360 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.
How far Suffield’s workers travel
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.
Driving is how Suffield gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Suffield is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Suffield 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 408 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). 1.5% of Suffield households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Suffield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Suffield is 1,000th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 998 | Wakeshma Township MI | 1,331 | $78K | 6.9% | 12.0% | 1% | B |
| 999 | Genoa NV | 1,284 | $122K | 7.4% | 4.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,000 | Suffield OH | 1,126 | $62K | 8.4% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,001 | Bass River Township NJ | 1,408 | $76K | 5.8% | 4.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,002 | High Rolls NM | 1,313 | $86K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Suffield, 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 Suffield: questions
What is the median household income in Suffield?
$61,667 (±$30,673) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Suffield?
8.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Suffield?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Suffield work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Akron (18%, 11 mi), Tallmadge (4%, 8 mi), Cuyahoga Falls (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Suffield walkable?
Suffield is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Suffield 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 Suffield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Suffield
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.