Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Walnut Creek has 3.0 jobs for every working resident: 943 people commute in to work
Jobs and income earn Walnut Creek A−; getting around on foot earns it B+. 956 jobs are based in Walnut Creek for 323 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, against 13% across Ohio.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek is where the jobs are
Walnut Creek has 956 jobs, 3.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,700 people are in town, 60% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Most Walnut Creek residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Walnut Creek makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Walnut Creek are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Walnut Creek residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 54%. The jobs ↓
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 323 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Walnut Creek’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Walnut Creek is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (32.5%) is left out: Walnut Creek’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, Walnut Creek could be anywhere from B− to A.
The daily commute in and out of Walnut Creek
On a workday 310 residents head out to work and 13 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Walnut Creek on a workday afternoon, 60% more 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.
How far Walnut Creek goes to work
About 18% 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.
Goods jobs make up 49% of work in Walnut Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Walnut Creek, 2013 → 2023: 664 → 956. 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 Walnut Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Walnut Creek’s workforce comes from
Where Walnut Creek clocks in
14% of workers
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.
From Walnut Creek, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Walnut Creek workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 300 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.
In Walnut Creek, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Walnut Creek is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 311 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). 19.6% of Walnut Creek households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Walnut Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Walnut Creek places 295th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 35 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Granville South OH | 1,146 | $131K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 293 | Calamus WI | 1,035 | $108K | 3.6% | 1.9% | <1% | A− |
| 294 | Nassau NY | 1,077 | $85K | 4.6% | 7.8% | 2% | A− |
| 295 | Walnut Creek OH | 1,053 | $81K | 1.3% | 32.5% | 4% | A− |
| 296 | Pemberville OH | 1,334 | $88K | 5.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A− |
| 297 | Center WI | 1,044 | $112K | 5.4% | 3.5% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Walnut Creek, 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 Walnut Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Walnut Creek?
$80,724 (±$37,562) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Walnut Creek?
1.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Walnut Creek?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Walnut Creek work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paint Township (14%, 6 mi), Walnut Creek Township (13%, 1 mi), Berlin (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Walnut Creek walkable?
Walnut Creek is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Walnut Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Walnut Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Walnut Creek
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.