Photo: Nyttend · Public domainEagle Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Measured by household income, Eagle Township is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns. Eagle Township has 50 jobs for 421 working residents. The two grades for Eagle Township are A− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Eagle Township
Eagle Township is a place people come home to
There are 50 jobs based in Eagle Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Eagle Township has about 710 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Eagle Township works one town over
36% of working residents work in a town that borders Eagle Township: Findlay (32%), Liberty Township (3%) and Arlington (1%). Next door ↓
Commutes from Eagle Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 23 across Ohio. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Ohio 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 421 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Eagle Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Eagle Township is better than 84% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Eagle Township’s grade up (1.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Eagle 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, Eagle Township could be anywhere from A− to A.
Eagle Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 420 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 49 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Eagle Township on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Eagle Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eagle Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 582 commuters (the 10% 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.
32% of working residents work in Findlay
Where Eagle Township clocks in
32% of workers
10% of workers
3% 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.
In Eagle Township, 70% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagle Township, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 50. 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 Eagle Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Eagle Township
About 24% 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 Eagle Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eagle Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 647 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). 9.9% of Eagle Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eagle Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Eagle Township is 260th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 258 | Palm Valley TX | 1,340 | $99K | 2.6% | 4.2% | 2% | A− |
| 259 | Cannon City Township MN | 1,273 | $102K | 3.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A− |
| 260 | Eagle Township OH | 1,084 | $99K | 1.3% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 261 | Hortonia WI | 1,040 | $103K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 262 | Groton Township OH | 1,298 | $94K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Eagle Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
36% of Eagle Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Findlay (32%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eagle Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Township | – | A− | C | 18 min | $98,713 |
| Liberty Township | 3% | A− | C | 17 min | $101,250 |
| Union Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 20 min | $80,000 |
| Findlay | 32% | B− | B+ | 16 min | $61,423 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | A− | D− | 17 min | $98,958 |
| Arlington | 1% | B− | C+ | 21 min | $77,450 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Eagle 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 Eagle Township: questions
What is the median household income in Eagle Township?
$98,713 (±$5,245) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eagle Township?
1.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eagle Township?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eagle Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Findlay (32%, 8 mi), Bluffton (10%, 10 mi), Liberty Township (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eagle Township walkable?
Eagle Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eagle Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagle Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagle 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.