Photo: Benny Mazur from Toledo, OH · CC BY 2.0Benton Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Measured by household income, Benton Township is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns. Benton Township has 161 jobs, and 1,062 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Benton Township is better than 90% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Benton Township
Benton Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Benton Township’s grade up (1.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Benton Township could be anywhere from B to A+.
Who leaves Benton Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,044 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 143 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Benton Township on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
13% of working residents work in Toledo
Where Benton Township clocks in
13% 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.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
66% of the jobs in Benton Township pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Benton Township, 2013 → 2023: 179 → 161. 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 Benton Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Benton Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Benton Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,314 commuters (the 5% 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 commute from Benton Township, by distance
About 22% 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.
Most of Benton Township commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,387 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). 3.9% of Benton Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Benton Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Benton Township next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200: 348th of 4,995 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 346 | Township 7 NE | 2,760 | $93K | 5.3% | 0.3% | 5% | A |
| 347 | Wakarusa Township KS | 2,173 | $99K | 3.7% | 2.2% | 2% | A |
| 348 | Benton Township OH | 2,358 | $116K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 2% | A |
| 349 | Crystal Lawns IL | 1,766 | $82K | 7.0% | 0.9% | <1% | A |
| 350 | Park View IA | 2,437 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Benton Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Benton Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Harris Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Benton Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton Township | – | A | C+ | 23 min | $115,660 |
| Jerusalem Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 32 min | $92,589 |
| Carroll Township | 2% | B+ | D | 23 min | $74,625 |
| Harris Township | 4% | A− | D | 25 min | $89,471 |
| Allen Township | under 3% | A | C− | 24 min | $114,677 |
| Clay Township | under 3% | B+ | C | 25 min | $86,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Benton 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 Benton Township: questions
What is the median household income in Benton Township?
$115,660 (±$42,374) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Benton Township?
1.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Benton Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Benton Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toledo (13%, 19 mi), Oregon (5%, 12 mi), Port Clinton (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Benton Township walkable?
Benton Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Benton Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Benton Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Benton 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.