Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Buck Township trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 24.1% of residents; Ohio has 13.3%. The two grades for Buck Township are D for jobs and income and B for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Buck Township: the gist
Buck Township makes and builds things
71% of the jobs based in Buck Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Buck Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Buck Township is where the jobs are
Buck Township has 1,742 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Buck Township and Kenton trade workers both ways
Kenton is the top workplace for Buck Township residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Buck Township come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 908 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Buck Township
On income, poverty and job access, Buck Township is better than 6% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Buck Township’s grade up (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($42,833, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Buck Township’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, Buck Township could be anywhere from D− to C.
Goods jobs make up 71% of work in Buck Township
1,742 jobs are based in Buck Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buck Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,582 → 1,742. 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 Buck Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Buck Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 787 residents head out to work, 121 work right here, and 1,621 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Buck Township on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Buck Township live
Where Buck Township clocks in
21% of workers
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.
How long Buck Township spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Buck Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 733 commuters (the 0% 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 Buck Township, by distance
About 21% 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.
Getting around Buck Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Buck Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 733 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). 9.0% of Buck Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Buck Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Buck Township next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,092 | Whitney TX | 2,134 | $49K | 23.9% | 0.6% | 10% | D |
| 5,093 | Ramsey Township IL | 1,609 | $55K | 18.0% | 1.8% | 3% | D |
| 5,094 | Buck Township OH | 2,340 | $43K | 24.1% | 3.2% | 13% | D |
| 5,095 | Olathe CO | 1,927 | $56K | 25.5% | 6.0% | 8% | D |
| 5,096 | Cass City MI | 2,487 | $53K | 21.2% | 5.4% | 22% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | 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 Buck Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
21% of Buck Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Buck Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Township | – | D | B | 22 min | $42,833 |
| Pleasant Township | under 2% | C− | A− | 22 min | $59,598 |
| Kenton | 21% | C− | A− | 22 min | $56,033 |
| Cessna Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Hale Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 25 min | $78,036 |
| Lynn Township | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Taylor Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Dudley Township | under 2% | C | C− | 26 min | $78,063 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cessna Township, Lynn Township and Taylor Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Kenton. Darker towns draw more of Buck 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 Buck Township: questions
What is the median household income in Buck Township?
$42,833 (±$22,974) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Buck Township?
24.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Buck Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Buck Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kenton (21%, 2 mi), Bellefontaine (5%, 19 mi), Marysville (5%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Buck Township walkable?
Buck Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Buck Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buck Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buck 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.