Williams House · Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Williamsburg commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 2% of workers; Ohio has 13%. Williamsburg has 569 jobs for 1,095 working residents. Jobs and income earn Williamsburg C; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Williamsburg
Williamsburg’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Williamsburg is Cincinnati, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (136) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Williamsburg workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Williamsburg’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Williamsburg is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #809 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Williamsburg’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Williamsburg could be anywhere from D to B+.
The commute from Williamsburg, by distance
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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Williamsburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Williamsburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,200 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who works in Williamsburg, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,053 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 527 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Williamsburg on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
12% of working residents work in Cincinnati
Where Williamsburg clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Williamsburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Williamsburg, 2013 → 2023: 725 → 569. 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 Williamsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Williamsburg is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Williamsburg is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #693 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% 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 1,229 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). 3.6% of Williamsburg households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Williamsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600, Williamsburg comes 3,178th 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,176 | Jewett City CT | 3,456 | $56K | 13.9% | 5.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,177 | Clio MI | 2,478 | $53K | 20.0% | 4.2% | 3% | C |
| 3,178 | Williamsburg OH | 2,677 | $63K | 14.6% | 5.3% | 4% | C |
| 3,179 | Dillingham AK | 2,075 | $101K | 11.1% | 6.1% | — | C |
| 3,180 | Perry MI | 2,134 | $75K | 19.1% | 7.1% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Williamsburg, 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 Williamsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Williamsburg?
$62,500 (±$11,814) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Williamsburg?
14.6%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Williamsburg?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Williamsburg work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cincinnati (12%, 25 mi), Batavia Township (7%, 6 mi), Blue Ash (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Williamsburg walkable?
Williamsburg is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Williamsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Williamsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Williamsburg
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.