Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Goshen Township works elsewhere
Goshen Township has 525 jobs; 1,309 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Goshen Township B; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in ten work in Goshen Township; the top destination outside it is Mechanicsburg (7%, 0 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Goshen Township and work: the main findings
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Goshen Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Goshen Township is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #532 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Goshen Township’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Goshen Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
About 29 minutes each way for Goshen Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Goshen Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,430 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.
Goshen Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,200 residents head out to work, 109 work right here, and 416 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Goshen 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.
Commuting out of Goshen Township: the destinations
Where Goshen Township clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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.
What Goshen Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goshen Township, 2014 → 2024: 391 → 525. 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 Goshen Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Goshen 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 Goshen Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Goshen Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns, #517 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,659 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). 8.9% of Goshen Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Goshen Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Goshen Township next to U.S. towns of 2,600 to 4,900: 1,797th of 4,210 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,795 | Naples ME | 4,128 | $78K | 9.5% | 0.9% | 12% | B |
| 1,796 | Casco Township MI | 4,387 | $88K | 8.3% | 5.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,797 | Goshen Township OH | 3,647 | $74K | 11.0% | 3.4% | 8% | B |
| 1,798 | Rock WI | 2,988 | $71K | 21.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,799 | Cherry Valley IL | 2,887 | $75K | 8.3% | 5.4% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,210 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Goshen Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door to Goshen Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Goshen Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goshen Township | – | B | C+ | 29 min | $73,902 |
| Union Township | under 3% | C | D | 21 min | $56,331 |
| Pike Township | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Pleasant Township | under 3% | A− | D− | 30 min | $77,583 |
| Rush Township | under 3% | C+ | C− | 28 min | $63,194 |
| Somerford Township | under 3% | A+ | D | 28 min | $117,365 |
Same-state neighbors only. Pike Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Goshen 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 Goshen Township: questions
What is the median household income in Goshen Township?
$73,902 (±$10,557) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goshen Township?
11.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goshen Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goshen Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mechanicsburg (7%, 0 mi), Urbana (7%, 11 mi), Columbus (6%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Goshen Township walkable?
Goshen Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Goshen Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Goshen Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Goshen 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.