Fewer people are out of work in Thornville (1.1%) than in 94% of U.S. towns
Thornville grades A+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Measured by household income, Thornville is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns. Only 2% work in Thornville itself; outside it, Columbus draws the most (12%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Thornville and work: the main findings
How Thornville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Thornville is better than 96% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Thornville could be anywhere from A to A+.
How far Thornville’s workers travel
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who leaves Thornville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 345 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 150 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Thornville on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.45 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Thornville: the destinations
Where Thornville clocks in
12% of workers
11% 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.
Thornville makes things: 34% of its jobs are in goods
158 jobs are based in Thornville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Thornville, 2014 → 2024: 90 → 158. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Thornville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Thornville: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Thornville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 897 commuters (the 8% 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.
Most trips from Thornville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Thornville is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 976 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). 0.4% of Thornville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Thornville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Thornville places 94th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Libertytown MD | 1,346 | $114K | 1.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 93 | Oakland MO | 1,372 | $115K | 6.4% | 5.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 94 | Thornville OH | 1,111 | $102K | 1.7% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 95 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| 96 | Chatham Township MN | 1,388 | $159K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Thornville, 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 2024, 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 Thornville: questions
What is the median household income in Thornville?
$102,237 (±$13,670) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Thornville?
1.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Thornville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Thornville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (12%, 31 mi), Newark (11%, 12 mi), Lancaster (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Thornville walkable?
Thornville is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Thornville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Thornville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Thornville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.