Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHouseholds in Wilberforce earn less than those in 63% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 15.6% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. Wilberforce grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Working residents average 17 minutes each way, where Ohio has 23 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Wilberforce apart on work
Why Wilberforce gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Wilberforce is better than 40% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Wilberforce’s grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (16.2%) is left out: Wilberforce’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wilberforce could be anywhere from D to A.
About 17 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilberforce workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 729 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.
The daily flow of workers through Wilberforce
On a workday 558 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 799 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Wilberforce on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Xenia
Where Wilberforce clocks in
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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Wilberforce
822 jobs are based in Wilberforce.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilberforce, 2013 → 2023: 799 → 822. 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 Wilberforce’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Wilberforce’s workers travel
About 25% 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.
Most of Wilberforce commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wilberforce is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 37.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 785 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). 5.3% of Wilberforce households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wilberforce’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wilberforce next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600: 2,644th of 5,234 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,642 | Marlboro VT | 1,776 | $77K | 7.9% | 7.9% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,643 | Waimea HI | 1,840 | $89K | 8.5% | 1.3% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,644 | Wilberforce OH | 1,951 | $67K | 15.6% | 16.2% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,645 | Perezville TX | 2,237 | $48K | 10.5% | 9.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,646 | Monona IA | 1,444 | $74K | 7.3% | 0.9% | 13% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Wilberforce, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 10% of Wilberforce
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wilberforce workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilberforce | – | C+ | B+ | 17 min | $67,019 |
| Cedarville Township | under 2% | A− | A− | 16 min | $95,357 |
| Xenia | 10% | C | B− | 25 min | $56,029 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Xenia. Darker towns draw more of Wilberforce’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 Wilberforce: questions
What is the median household income in Wilberforce?
$67,019 (±$40,295) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilberforce?
15.6%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilberforce?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilberforce work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Xenia (10%, 4 mi), Columbus (6%, 51 mi), Dayton (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wilberforce walkable?
Wilberforce is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 37% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wilberforce without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilberforce, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilberforce
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.