Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Cass Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% stay in Cass Township for work; outside it, Mansfield is the main destination (11%, 13 miles). Cass Township has 284 jobs; 618 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Cass Township is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cass Township in brief
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cass Township
The poverty rate holds Cass Township’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Cass 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, Cass Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Cass Township makes things: 43% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cass Township, 2014 → 2024: 385 → 284. 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 Cass Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Cass Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 594 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 260 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Cass Township on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
The towns that employ Cass Township’s residents
Where Cass Township clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
Commuting from Cass Township: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cass Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 594 commuters (the 14% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cass Township
About 27% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Cass Township
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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). 27.8% of Cass Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cass Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Cass Township is 1,961st of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,959 | Mayfield PA | 1,749 | $79K | 10.3% | 4.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,960 | Hope Township MI | 1,383 | $101K | 6.7% | 2.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,961 | Cass Township OH | 1,607 | $67K | 3.9% | 1.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,962 | Benton Township PA | 1,752 | $65K | 5.2% | 1.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,963 | Nasewaupee WI | 2,028 | $86K | 5.8% | 3.1% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Cass Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Cass Township: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cass Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass Township | – | B | A− | 23 min | $66,797 |
| Bloominggrove Township | under 2% | C | B− | 30 min | $61,164 |
| Plymouth Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | B | D | 22 min | $72,986 |
Same-state neighbors only. Plymouth Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cass 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 Cass Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cass Township?
$66,797 (±$21,429) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cass Township?
3.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cass Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cass Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mansfield (11%, 13 mi), Shelby (10%, 5 mi), Willard (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Cass Township walkable?
Cass Township is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cass 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 Cass Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cass 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.