Photo: Christopher L. Riley · CC BY-SA 4.0Wilmington has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 8,598 people commute in to work
Employers in Wilmington report 10,178 jobs, against 5,425 working residents. The two grades for Wilmington are C for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Wilmington apart on work
Wilmington is where the jobs are
Wilmington has 10,178 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Wilmington draws workers from far and wide
The 10,178 jobs in Wilmington are filled from a wide area. Wilmington’s own residents hold 16% and the ten next-biggest home towns 16%; the other 68% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Wilmington are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker. Time on the road ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
41% of the jobs in Wilmington are in trade, transport and utilities, against 31% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Wilmington has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Wilmington went from 7,553 in 2013 to 10,178 in 2023, +35%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Wilmington: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wilmington is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #815 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Wilmington’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wilmington could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How many people are in Wilmington by day
On a workday 3,845 residents head out to work and 1,580 work right here.
About 18,000 people are in Wilmington on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
The towns that send workers to Wilmington
Where Wilmington clocks in
5% 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.
Time on the road from Wilmington: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilmington workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,202 commuters (the 6% 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 kinds of work in Wilmington
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilmington, 2013 → 2023: 7,553 → 10,178. 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 Wilmington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Wilmington, by distance
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.
Wilmington is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wilmington is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #301 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,530 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). 7.5% of Wilmington households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Wilmington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wilmington next to U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000: 1,845th of 2,354 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 4 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,843 | Rantoul IL | 11,991 | $49K | 16.9% | 3.2% | 26% | C |
| 1,844 | Phillipsburg NJ | 15,456 | $68K | 20.2% | 7.3% | 11% | C |
| 1,845 | Wilmington OH | 12,802 | $57K | 17.5% | 4.2% | 29% | C |
| 1,846 | Loyalsock Township PA | 11,393 | $59K | 7.9% | 12.3% | 14% | C |
| 1,847 | Fort Bliss TX | 11,460 | $57K | 13.0% | 12.3% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Wilmington, 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 Wilmington: questions
What is the median household income in Wilmington?
$57,199 (±$6,514) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilmington?
17.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilmington?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilmington work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Liberty Township (5%, 8 mi), Union Township (5%, 5 mi), Columbus (5%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wilmington walkable?
Wilmington is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wilmington without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilmington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilmington
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.