Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Buckskin Township are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 16.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio. Buckskin Township grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 1% work in Buckskin Township itself; outside it, Greenfield draws the most (13%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Buckskin Township, in brief
How Buckskin Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Buckskin Township is better than 8% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Buckskin Township’s grade.
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: Buckskin 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, Buckskin Township could be anywhere from D− to C.
Who works in Buckskin Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 698 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Buckskin Township on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.17 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Out of Buckskin Township to work: where people go
Where Buckskin Township clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Buckskin Township
118 jobs are based in Buckskin Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckskin Township, 2013 → 2023: 52 → 118. 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 Buckskin Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Buckskin Township: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Buckskin Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 646 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far Buckskin Township’s workers travel
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.
In Buckskin Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Buckskin Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 702 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). 7.8% of Buckskin Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Buckskin Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Buckskin Township ranks: 5,117th of 5,793 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,115 | Shannon MS | 1,496 | $42K | 24.1% | 8.9% | 4% | D |
| 5,116 | Harris Township MI | 2,088 | $55K | 15.4% | 5.2% | 23% | D |
| 5,117 | Buckskin Township OH | 2,046 | $47K | 16.7% | 7.3% | 1% | D |
| 5,118 | Sylva NC | 2,691 | $44K | 19.4% | 7.3% | 18% | D |
| 5,119 | North Bend Township IN | 1,511 | $61K | 23.6% | 3.8% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | 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 Buckskin Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Bordering towns draw 14% of Buckskin Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Buckskin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckskin Township | – | D | D | 25 min | $46,553 |
| Madison Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $59,286 |
| Paint Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 31 min | $52,059 |
| Greenfield | 13% | C− | A− | 22 min | $46,875 |
| Concord Township | 1% | B | D− | 27 min | $75,000 |
| Twin Township | under 2% | B | D− | 33 min | $57,670 |
| Wayne Township | under 2% | C | D− | 39 min | $63,651 |
| Perry Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 40 min | $76,014 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Greenfield. Darker towns draw more of Buckskin 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 Buckskin Township: questions
What is the median household income in Buckskin Township?
$46,553 (±$19,832) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Buckskin Township?
16.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Buckskin Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Buckskin Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenfield (13%, 4 mi), Chillicothe (9%, 17 mi), Columbus (8%, 46 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Buckskin Township walkable?
Buckskin Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Buckskin Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buckskin Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckskin 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.