Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Clark Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Clark Township has 47 jobs, against 849 working residents. The two grades for Clark Township are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Clark Township at work: what stands out
Clark Township is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in Clark Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Clark Township has about 1,200 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Clark Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical 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 849 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Clark Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Clark Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Clark Township’s grade up ($97,806, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Clark Township could be anywhere from D to A.
How a workday changes Clark Township
On a workday 844 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Clark Township on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
Time on the road from Clark Township: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clark Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,020 commuters (the 9% 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 Wilmington
Where Clark Township clocks in
20% of workers
4% 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.
Clark Township works in goods: 81% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clark Township, 2013 → 2023: 45 → 47. 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 Clark Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Clark Township
About 19% 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 Clark Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clark Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 2.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,116 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). 3.0% of Clark Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clark Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Clark Township is 1,807th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,805 | Veazie ME | 1,864 | $78K | 7.5% | 4.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,806 | Bronson Township OH | 1,967 | $69K | 0.3% | 7.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,807 | Clark Township OH | 1,998 | $98K | 8.0% | 3.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,808 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| 1,809 | Horse Shoe NC | 1,490 | $64K | 4.5% | 10.8% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | 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 Clark Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Clark Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Clark Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Township | – | B | C | 35 min | $97,806 |
| Dodson Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 31 min | $70,441 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 23 min | $66,736 |
| Lynchburg | under 2% | C | C+ | 33 min | $70,956 |
| Green Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 28 min | $70,625 |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 32 min | $83,704 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Clark 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 Clark Township: questions
What is the median household income in Clark Township?
$97,806 (±$39,951) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clark Township?
8.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clark Township?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clark Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (20%, 9 mi), Liberty Township (5%, 17 mi), Columbus (4%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clark Township walkable?
Clark Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clark Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clark Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clark 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.