Photo: Mark Spearman · CC BY 2.0Butler Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
For 25% of workers, the job is at home; Ohio has 13%. There are 101 jobs in Butler Township; 482 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Butler Township D−; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Butler Township and work: the main findings
Butler Township is a place people come home to
There are 101 jobs based in Butler Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Butler Township has about 920 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Butler Township
25% of Butler Township workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Butler Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio worker, and quicker than any town next door (30 to 32 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 482 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Butler Township
On income, poverty and job access, Butler Township is better than 5% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Butler Township’s grade.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Butler 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, Butler Township could be anywhere from D− to B−.
How a workday changes Butler Township
On a workday 472 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 91 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Butler Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Time on the road from Butler Township: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Butler Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 326 commuters (the 25% 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.
20% of working residents work in Mount Vernon
Where Butler Township clocks in
9% 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.
Goods jobs make up 87% of work in Butler Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Butler Township, 2014 → 2024: 105 → 101. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Butler Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Butler Township
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Butler Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Butler Township is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 23.6% 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 435 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). 27.9% of Butler Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Butler Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Butler Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,421 | Cherokee OK | 1,439 | $59K | 22.2% | 6.1% | 21% | D− |
| 4,422 | Greenwood Township MI | 1,132 | $55K | 20.7% | 12.0% | <1% | D− |
| 4,423 | Butler Township OH | 1,296 | $51K | 28.0% | 0.0% | 2% | D− |
| 4,424 | Roulette Township PA | 1,055 | $51K | 16.8% | 5.7% | 9% | D− |
| 4,425 | Cove Creek NC | 1,629 | $53K | 22.6% | 1.0% | 2% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Butler Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns around Butler Township
The biggest share goes to Union Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Butler Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Township | – | D− | B− | 17 min | $51,086 |
| Harrison Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 30 min | $72,639 |
| Union Township | 2% | B− | B | 31 min | $68,636 |
| Newcastle Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Harrison Township and Newcastle Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Butler 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 2024, 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 Butler Township: questions
What is the median household income in Butler Township?
$51,086 (±$25,255) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Butler Township?
28.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Butler Township?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Butler Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Vernon (20%, 14 mi), Columbus (9%, 47 mi), Danville (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Butler Township walkable?
Butler Township is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Butler Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 28% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Butler Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Butler Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.