First United Methodist Church · Photo: Bwsmith84 at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0Woodsfield has 1.4 jobs for every working resident: 996 people commute in to work
Jobs & income D−: better than 2% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A: more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 28 minutes each way (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). About one in four work in Woodsfield; the top destination outside it is Cambridge (5%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Woodsfield, in brief
What’s behind Woodsfield’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Woodsfield is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Woodsfield’s grade.
Unemployment (12.6%) is left out: Woodsfield’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, Woodsfield could be anywhere from D− to D.
About 28 minutes each way, longer than most of Ohio
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Woodsfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 717 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Woodsfield fills up on a workday
On a workday 632 residents head out to work, 194 work right here, and 996 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Woodsfield on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 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.
5% of working residents work in Cambridge
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Woodsfield clocks in
5% of workers
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 1,190 jobs in Woodsfield are
1,190 jobs are based in Woodsfield. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Woodsfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Woodsfield, 2013 → 2023: 1,007 → 1,190. 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.
Half of Woodsfield commutes less than 23 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 27% 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.
Woodsfield is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Woodsfield is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Woodsfield near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 786 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). 20.2% of Woodsfield households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Woodsfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Woodsfield compares with U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Woodsfield, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,213 | Andrews NC | 1,799 | $37K | 21.4% | 5.5% | 15% | D− |
| 5,214 | Glouster OH | 1,630 | $38K | 28.0% | 4.8% | 5% | D− |
| 5,215 | Woodsfield OH | 2,127 | $49K | 25.4% | 12.6% | 23% | D− |
| 5,216 | Burns Flat OK | 1,918 | $45K | 25.7% | 6.4% | 6% | D− |
| 5,217 | Jamestown TN | 2,135 | $31K | 34.0% | 2.0% | 26% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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.
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 Woodsfield: questions
What is the median household income in Woodsfield?
$49,390 (±$11,213) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Woodsfield?
25.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Woodsfield?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Woodsfield work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cambridge (5%, 31 mi), Center Township (5%, 1 mi), Columbus (4%, 100 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Woodsfield walkable?
Woodsfield is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Woodsfield 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 Woodsfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Woodsfield
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.