Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHarrison Township’s household incomes are lower than in 61% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income B: better than 61% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D−: more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 24 minutes each way (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). Only 2% work in Harrison Township; the top destination outside it is Napoleon (24%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Harrison Township
Harrison Township makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Harrison Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Harrison Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Harrison Township and Napoleon trade workers both ways
Napoleon is the top workplace for Harrison Township residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Harrison Township come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Harrison Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
84% of the jobs based in Harrison Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 57% of the jobs Harrison Township residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Harrison Township. The jobs ↓
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 513 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Harrison Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Harrison Township is better than 61% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Harrison Township’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($68,355, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (17.6%) is left out: Harrison 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, Harrison Township could be anywhere from C to A.
Harrison Township makes things: 69% of its jobs are in goods
468 jobs are based in Harrison Township. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Harrison Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harrison Township, 2013 → 2023: 353 → 468. 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.
24% of working residents work in Napoleon
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Harrison Township clocks in
24% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 504 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 459 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 24 minutes each way, about the OH average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harrison Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 640 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Harrison Township commutes less than 15 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
Most trips from Harrison Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Harrison Township is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Harrison Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 723 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). 0.0% of Harrison Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Harrison Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Harrison Township is 1,161st of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Harrison Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
| # | 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+ |
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| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
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| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 1,159 | New Market TN | 1,431 | $72K | 7.5% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,160 | Hennepin Township IL | 1,236 | $89K | 5.9% | 3.8% | 9% | B |
| 1,161 | Harrison Township OH | 1,262 | $68K | 4.8% | 17.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,162 | Thorntown IN | 1,426 | $74K | 8.5% | 1.4% | 3% | B |
| 1,163 | Shamokin Dam PA | 1,623 | $69K | 5.6% | 1.5% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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.
24% of Harrison Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Napoleon (24%). Darker towns draw more of Harrison Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Harrison Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Township | – | B | D− | 24 min | $68,355 |
| Liberty Township | under 2% | B | C− | 23 min | $75,551 |
| Napoleon Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Napoleon | 24% | B+ | B− | 20 min | $76,639 |
| Damascus Township | under 2% | C+ | D | 29 min | $75,500 |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | B+ | D | 31 min | $86,438 |
Same-state neighbors only. Napoleon Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Harrison Township: questions
What is the median household income in Harrison Township?
$68,355 (±$31,857) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harrison Township?
4.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harrison Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harrison Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Napoleon (24%, 3 mi), Defiance (6%, 17 mi), Wauseon (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Harrison Township walkable?
Harrison Township is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harrison Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harrison Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harrison 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.