Photo: Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Public domainVermilion has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Employers in Vermilion report 2,038 jobs, and 3,702 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Vermilion is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in seven work in Vermilion itself; outside it, Lorain draws the most (7%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Vermilion and work: the main findings
The figures behind Vermilion’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Vermilion’s grade up (6.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($69,701, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vermilion could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Where people from Vermilion work
Where Vermilion clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
Vermilion quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,169 residents head out to work, 533 work right here, and 1,505 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,000 people are in Vermilion on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
What Vermilion’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vermilion, 2013 → 2023: 1,966 → 2,038. 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 Vermilion’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Vermilion
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vermilion workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,417 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 many miles Vermilion commutes
About 21% 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.
Getting around Vermilion: mostly by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% of 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 4,749 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). 3.1% of Vermilion households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vermilion’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Vermilion ranks: 1,431st of 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,429 | Reedsburg WI | 10,641 | $75K | 8.3% | 2.6% | 35% | B |
| 1,430 | Walnut Township OH | 7,051 | $75K | 6.4% | 5.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,431 | Vermilion OH | 10,695 | $70K | 6.7% | 4.3% | 14% | B |
| 1,432 | Bellevue PA | 7,888 | $69K | 9.4% | 4.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,433 | Lincoln Village OH | 8,928 | $54K | 11.7% | 2.6% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 Vermilion, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Vermilion and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Vermilion workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermilion | – | B | C+ | 26 min | $69,701 |
| Brownhelm Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 28 min | $62,452 |
| Vermilion Township | 2% | B− | D | 27 min | $73,407 |
| Lorain | 7% | C− | C+ | 25 min | $48,685 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lorain. Darker towns draw more of Vermilion’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 Vermilion: questions
What is the median household income in Vermilion?
$69,701 (±$11,970) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vermilion?
6.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vermilion?
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 Vermilion work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lorain (7%, 7 mi), Cleveland (6%, 33 mi), Elyria (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vermilion walkable?
Vermilion is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vermilion without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vermilion, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vermilion
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.