Photo: Nyttend · Public domainThere are 2.5 jobs in Westfield Center for every working resident, and 1,398 people commute in
Household incomes here are higher than in 83% of U.S. towns. Westfield Center has 1,415 jobs, and 565 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Westfield Center is better than 96% of U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Westfield Center, in brief
Westfield Center is where the jobs are
Westfield Center has 1,415 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,100 people are in town, 70% more than the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Westfield Center’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Westfield Center is Cleveland, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (51) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Nearly all the work in Westfield Center is services
99% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 0% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 565 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Westfield Center’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Westfield Center’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, Westfield Center could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Who leaves Westfield Center for work, and who comes in
On a workday 548 residents head out to work and 17 work right here.
About 2,100 people are in Westfield Center on a workday afternoon, 70% more than live here.
2.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
How far Westfield Center’s workers travel
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.
Westfield Center is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Westfield Center, 2014 → 2024: 33 → 1,415. 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 Westfield Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Westfield Center live
Where Westfield Center clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
Westfield Center’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Westfield Center workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 403 commuters (the 21% 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 Westfield Center start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 507 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.1% of Westfield Center households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Westfield Center’s commuters take a bus or train.
104th of 4,312: where Westfield Center ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600
| # | 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 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 102 | Dunlap IL | 1,588 | $142K | 3.3% | 2.4% | 6% | A+ |
| 103 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 104 | Westfield Center OH | 1,217 | $110K | 2.7% | 5.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 105 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 106 | Big Rock IL | 1,090 | $163K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Westfield Center, 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 Westfield Center: questions
What is the median household income in Westfield Center?
$109,625 (±$25,757) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Westfield Center?
2.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Westfield Center?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Westfield Center work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (9%, 34 mi), Medina (9%, 8 mi), Akron (7%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Westfield Center walkable?
Westfield Center is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Westfield Center without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Westfield Center, from the people who make the trip.
More of Westfield Center
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.