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Jobs & commute in Ohioville

Ohioville has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out

Ohioville has 427 jobs, against 1,533 working residents. Jobs and income earn Ohioville B+; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 6% stay in Ohioville for work; outside it, Pittsburgh is the main destination (9%, 32 miles).

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

What stands out · In brief

Work in Ohioville: the figures worth knowing

The better-paid jobs are outside Ohioville

64% of Ohioville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 39% of the jobs based in Ohioville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓

Ohioville’s biggest commute is a long one

The top workplace outside Ohioville is Pittsburgh, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (137) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓

Stores, warehouses and trucking

46% of the jobs in Ohioville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓

Ohioville is a place people come home to

There are 427 jobs based in Ohioville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ohioville has about 2,200 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓

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.

Jobs & income grade

Jobs & income in Ohioville: the grade in detail

On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Ohioville is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #459 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment is its strongest input (2.8%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.

Household income $80,673 (±$9,226) · PA $77,971 · U.S. $80,734Higher than 57% of U.S. towns
Poverty 6.5% · PA 11.7% · U.S. 12.5%Lower than 70% of U.S. towns
Unemployment 2.8% (±2.2) · PA 5.3% · U.S. 5.2%Lower than 73% of U.S. towns
Job access by car EPA, jobs within a 45-minute driveMore than 53% of U.S. towns
Pennsylvania towns we grade 1,035 towns#459 of 1,035
C+A

A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ohioville could be anywhere from C+ to A.

How TownRatings grades jobs & income →

★ What stands out · The jobs

The kinds of work in Ohioville

Jobs based in OhiovilleJobs Ohioville residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms4%17%
Trade, transport & utilities46%26%
Services: health, schools, offices50%57%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less25%14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%23%
Over $3,333 a month39%64%

Who does it

29 or younger21%18%
30 to 5441%52%
55 and older38%30%
+9%

Jobs based in Ohioville, 2013 → 2023: 393 → 427. 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 Ohioville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

How far

Ohioville’s commute, mile by mile

10 mi25 mi40 miPittsburgh: 9% · 31.6 miBrighton Township: 5% · 5.5 miMoon Township: 5% · 18.9 miCenter Township: 4% · 10 miFindlay Township: 4% · 17.8 miBeaver: 4% · 9.2 miCranberry Township: 2% · 19.9 miIndustry: 2% · 4.3 miHopewell Township: 2% · 12.8 miPittsburgh 9%Brighton Township 5%Moon Township 5%Findlay Township 4%Ohioville
OhiovilleTop destinations (size = commuters)
35%Under 10 mi535 residents
33%10–24 mi505 residents
20%25–50 mi312 residents
11%Over 50 mi172 residents

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.

Day and night

In and out of Ohioville on a workday

On a workday 1,435 residents head out to work, 98 work right here, and 329 people come in from elsewhere.

1,435live here, work elsewhere
98live and work here
329work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night3,300
Workday2,200
3,300live here− 1,400head out to work+ 330come in to work= 2,200on a workday

About 2,200 people are in Ohioville on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.28jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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 commute map

Where the trip to work from Ohioville ends

GlasgowGeorgetownBeaver: 56 residents work here (4%)New BrightonMidlandMonacaBeaver FallsAliquippaIndustry: 34 residents work here (2%)OhiovillePittsburgh: 137 residents work here (9%)Moon Township: 73 residents work here (5%)Hopewell Township: 31 residents work here (2%)South Beaver TownshipBrighton Township: 83 residents work here (5%)Center Township: 57 residents work here (4%)Cranberry Township: 38 residents work here (2%)Findlay Township: 57 residents work here (4%)Greene TownshipVanport TownshipPittsburghBrighton TownshipMoon TownshipCenter TownshipFindlay TownshipBeaverOhioville
1
Pittsburgh31.6 mi away
9%137
2
Ohioville (in town)right here
6%98
35%83
4
Moon Township18.9 mi away
5%73
5
Center Township10 mi away
4%57
6
Findlay Township17.8 mi away
4%57
7
Beaver9.2 mi away
4%56
8
Cranberry Township19.9 mi away
2%38
9
Industry4.3 mi away
2%34
10
Hopewell Township12.8 mi away
2%31
Everywhere elseother towns and states
57%869
The top trips

Where Ohioville clocks in

Lines 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

About 26 minutes each way for Ohioville’s commuters

A year of commuting
202 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Ohioville26 min
Pennsylvania26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
12%

of Ohioville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How Ohioville gets to work
86%Drive alone
12%Carpool
<1%Walk
2%Other

Share of the 1,376 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

Getting around · Walkability grade

For most of Ohioville, work means a drive

On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ohioville is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns, #1,024 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Ohioville near the same point nationally.

EPA walkability index 3.8 of 20 · typical PA town 6.7 · U.S. 6.9Higher than 7% of U.S. towns
Walk, bike or transit 0.1% of commuters · PA 8.6% · U.S. 7.1%Higher than 15% of U.S. towns
Pennsylvania towns we grade 1,035 towns#1,024 of 1,035
DD

A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,554 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

Pittsburgh37.5
Ohioville0.0

Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.5% of Ohioville households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ohioville’s commuters take a bus or train.

Towns its size

Ohioville places 1,278th of 4,593 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500

#TownPeopleHousehold incomePovertyUnemploymentWork in townGrade
1Kenilworth IL2,437$250K2.1%4.0%2%A+
2Riverwoods IL3,766$249K0.7%0.7%2%A+
3Belle Meade TN2,621$250K1.4%0.3%2%A+
…
21Wallace Township PA3,759$183K1.9%0.0%3%A+
…
65Pocopson Township PA4,480$230K1.3%2.2%3%A+
66West Pikeland Township PA4,045$226K0.9%2.8%4%A+
…
1,276Floyd NY3,668$98K13.0%1.3%4%B+
1,277Enon OH2,456$97K6.3%5.3%1%B+
1,278Ohioville PA3,317$81K6.5%2.8%6%B+
1,279Simonton Lake IN4,248$76K11.5%1.7%1%B+
1,280Dry Ridge OH2,554$74K4.1%5.2%2%B+
…
4,593Lake Isabella CA4,059$27K40.7%8.6%18%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 Ohioville, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.

Next door

Next door to Ohioville

The biggest share goes to Industry (2%).

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Midland23 min
Greene Township25 min
Ohioville26 min
Glasgow27 min
Industry28 min
South Beaver Township29 min
Georgetown32 min

Jobs & commute next door

TownOhioville workers thereJobs & incomeWalkabilityCommuteHousehold income
Ohioville–B+D26 min$80,673
Industry2%B−B−28 min$75,694
South Beaver Townshipunder 3%BC+29 min$87,538
Greene Townshipunder 3%BB−25 min$103,750
Midlandunder 3%C+A23 min$60,096
Glasgowunder 3%——27 min—
Georgetownunder 3%——32 min—

Same-state neighbors only. Glasgow and Georgetown: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.

Darker towns draw more of Ohioville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Ohioville: questions

What is the median household income in Ohioville?

$80,673 (±$9,226) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Ohioville?

6.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Ohioville?

26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.

Where do people who live in Ohioville work?

6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pittsburgh (9%, 32 mi), Brighton Township (5%, 6 mi), Moon Township (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Is Ohioville walkable?

Ohioville is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.

Can you get around Ohioville without a car?

0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Ohioville, from the people who make the trip.

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Beyond the commute

More of Ohioville

Ohioville home →

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.