Photo: Nyttend · Public domainAmes Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for <1% of workers; Ohio has 13%. 115 jobs are based in Ames Township, against 456 working residents. For jobs and income Ames Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Ames Township apart
Ames Township is a place people come home to
There are 115 jobs based in Ames Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ames Township has about 870 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Ames Township workers work from home
Only 0% 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; with 456 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Ames Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Ames Township’s grade up ($83,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Ames Township’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, Ames Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
Who commutes out of Ames Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 443 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 870 people are in Ames Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ames Township
About 33% 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.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ames Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 534 commuters (the <1% 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.
23% of working residents work in Athens
Where Ames Township clocks in
23% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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.
Jobs in Ames Township: what the 115 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ames Township, 2013 → 2023: 144 → 115. 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 Ames Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Ames Township, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 535 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 41% 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). 8.7% of Ames Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ames Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Ames Township ranks: 2,213th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 41 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 48 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 55 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,211 | Fort Ripley Township MN | 1,081 | $75K | 11.2% | 2.4% | <1% | C |
| 2,212 | Harvard Township NE | 1,097 | $64K | 6.9% | 2.9% | 7% | C |
| 2,213 | Ames Township OH | 1,213 | $84K | 12.3% | 3.4% | 3% | C |
| 2,214 | Gallant AL | 1,081 | $55K | 7.6% | 6.5% | 0% | C |
| 2,215 | Fort Clark Springs TX | 1,048 | $71K | 6.6% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Ames Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door to Ames Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ames Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ames Township | – | C | B− | 27 min | $83,500 |
| Bern Township | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Dover Township | under 2% | C | B− | 20 min | $55,170 |
| Canaan Township | 1% | C− | D | 23 min | $57,955 |
| Homer Township | under 2% | — | — | 48 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Bern Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Homer Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Canaan Township. Darker towns draw more of Ames Township’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 Ames Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ames Township?
$83,500 (±$35,939) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ames Township?
12.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ames Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ames Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Athens (23%, 8 mi), Columbus (8%, 66 mi), Logan (3%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ames Township walkable?
Ames Township is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ames Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ames Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ames Township
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.