Photo: Nyttend · Public domainDudley Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Employers in Dudley Township report 20 jobs, and 592 of its residents work somewhere. Dudley Township grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Hardly any work in Dudley Township itself; outside it, Kenton draws the most (14%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Dudley Township apart on work
Dudley Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dudley Township is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Dudley Township’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dudley Township could be anywhere from D− to A.
Who commutes out of Dudley Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 590 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Dudley 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.
Where people from Dudley Township work
Where Dudley Township clocks in
14% of workers
10% of workers
6% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 50% of the jobs in Dudley Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dudley Township, 2013 → 2023: 37 → 20. 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 Dudley Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Dudley Township, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dudley Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 886 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.
The distance from Dudley Township to work
About 20% 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.
The commute in Dudley Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dudley Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 968 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). 20.5% of Dudley Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Dudley Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Dudley Township is 3,654th among 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,652 | Rodman NY | 1,151 | $83K | 13.6% | 7.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,653 | West Sparta NY | 1,145 | $73K | 10.6% | 2.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,654 | Dudley Township OH | 1,448 | $78K | 23.3% | 3.4% | <1% | C |
| 3,655 | Ayr Township PA | 1,995 | $62K | 9.0% | 4.2% | 22% | C |
| 3,656 | Jefferson WI | 1,152 | $70K | 14.5% | 2.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Dudley Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work in the towns next to Dudley Township
The biggest share goes to Buck Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dudley Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley Township | – | C | C− | 26 min | $78,063 |
| Goshen Township | under 2% | — | — | 13 min | — |
| Hale Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 25 min | $78,036 |
| Buck Township | 3% | D | B | 22 min | $42,833 |
| Bowling Green Township | under 2% | — | — | 41 min | — |
| Montgomery Township | under 2% | D | B− | 24 min | $67,669 |
Same-state neighbors only. Goshen Township and Bowling Green Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dudley 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 Dudley Township: questions
What is the median household income in Dudley Township?
$78,063 (±$30,011) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dudley Township?
23.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dudley Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dudley Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kenton (14%, 8 mi), Bellefontaine (10%, 23 mi), Columbus (6%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dudley Township walkable?
Dudley Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dudley Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dudley Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dudley 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.