Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Tiltonsville works elsewhere
163 jobs are based in Tiltonsville for 568 working residents. For jobs and income Tiltonsville is better than 31% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (A). Measured by household income, Tiltonsville is behind 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Tiltonsville, in brief
Income, poverty and work: Tiltonsville’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Tiltonsville’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($57,250, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Tiltonsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tiltonsville could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Tiltonsville
On a workday 542 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 137 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Tiltonsville on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
13% of working residents work in Wheeling
Where Tiltonsville clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Tiltonsville: what the 163 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tiltonsville, 2013 → 2023: 167 → 163. 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 Tiltonsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Tiltonsville takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tiltonsville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 667 commuters (the 7% 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 Tiltonsville goes to work
About 20% 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.
Tiltonsville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 714 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). 10.6% of Tiltonsville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Tiltonsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600, Tiltonsville comes 2,358th 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+ |
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| 41 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,356 | Ahwahnee CA | 1,453 | $77K | 8.9% | 0.9% | 2% | C |
| 2,357 | Ackley IA | 1,530 | $63K | 7.5% | 2.0% | 16% | C |
| 2,358 | Tiltonsville OH | 1,215 | $57K | 8.2% | 3.5% | 5% | C |
| 2,359 | Colfax WI | 1,193 | $62K | 12.3% | 9.4% | 7% | C |
| 2,360 | Elmore Township IN | 1,086 | $76K | 10.7% | 1.2% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Tiltonsville, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Tiltonsville: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Rayland (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tiltonsville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiltonsville | – | C | A | 26 min | $57,250 |
| Warren Township | under 2% | C− | B+ | 28 min | $54,804 |
| Rayland | 1% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Yorkville | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Rayland and Yorkville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tiltonsville’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 Tiltonsville: questions
What is the median household income in Tiltonsville?
$57,250 (±$6,072) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tiltonsville?
8.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tiltonsville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tiltonsville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wheeling (13%, 7 mi), Martins Ferry (7%, 5 mi), Richland Township (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tiltonsville walkable?
Tiltonsville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.6 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tiltonsville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tiltonsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tiltonsville
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.