Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Bucks Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Bucks Township is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (B). 463 jobs are based in Bucks Township for 993 working residents. Only 3% work in Bucks Township itself; outside it, Sugarcreek draws the most (15%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Bucks Township: the figures worth knowing
Bucks Township makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Bucks Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bucks Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
41% of the jobs based in Bucks Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 30% of Bucks Township’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Bucks Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker. 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 993 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Bucks Township
The poverty rate holds Bucks Township’s grade up (4.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Bucks 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, Bucks Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Goods, not services: 56% of the jobs in Bucks Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bucks Township, 2013 → 2023: 364 → 463. 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 Bucks Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bucks Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 896 commuters (the 6% 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 daily commute in and out of Bucks Township
On a workday 960 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 430 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Bucks 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.
Where Bucks Township’s working residents head each day
Where Bucks Township clocks in
15% of workers
6% 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.
The distance from Bucks Township to work
About 16% 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.
In Bucks Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 952 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). 14.5% of Bucks Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bucks Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bucks Township next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600: 2,046th of 5,921 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,044 | Winfield Township MI | 2,406 | $74K | 8.7% | 3.0% | 1% | B |
| 2,045 | Tecumseh Township MI | 2,014 | $101K | 5.5% | 6.5% | 1% | B |
| 2,046 | Bucks Township OH | 1,892 | $73K | 4.9% | 1.0% | 3% | B |
| 2,047 | New Haven VT | 1,742 | $92K | 3.1% | 4.9% | 5% | B |
| 2,048 | Sparta MO | 1,953 | $63K | 11.9% | 1.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Bucks Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Bucks Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Clark Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bucks Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucks Township | – | B | B | 18 min | $72,902 |
| Jefferson Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Adams Township | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Auburn Township | under 3% | C | B+ | 18 min | $76,992 |
| Clark Township | 4% | A− | B+ | 23 min | $71,346 |
| Crawford Township | under 3% | B− | B− | 25 min | $79,868 |
Same-state neighbors only. Jefferson Township and Adams Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bucks 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 Bucks Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bucks Township?
$72,902 (±$11,486) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bucks Township?
4.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bucks Township?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bucks Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sugarcreek (15%, 8 mi), Walnut Creek Township (6%, 11 mi), Dover (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bucks Township walkable?
Bucks Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bucks Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bucks Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bucks 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.