Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHarrison Township at work: jobs, income and the commute
Only 5% stay in Harrison Township for work; outside it, Bellefontaine is the main destination (22%, 3 miles). For jobs and income Harrison Township is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (C). Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Harrison Township: the gist
Harrison Township and Bellefontaine trade workers both ways
Bellefontaine is the top workplace for Harrison Township residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Harrison Township come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Harrison Township makes and builds things
59% 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 30%. The jobs ↓
A longer commute than the towns next door
Harrison Township averages 26 minutes each way, more than any bordering town (19 to 20 minutes). Next door ↓
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 841 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Harrison Township earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Harrison Township’s grade up (5.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Harrison 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, Harrison Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where Harrison Township’s working residents head each day
Where Harrison Township clocks in
22% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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 Harrison Township, 59% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,179 jobs are based in Harrison Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harrison Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,332 → 1,179. 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 Harrison Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Harrison Township on a workday
On a workday 800 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 1,138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Harrison Township on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 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.
Getting to work from Harrison Township takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 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 838 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Harrison Township’s workers travel
About 15% 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 Harrison Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 881 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). 7.1% 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.
Among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800, Harrison Township ranks 2,028th of 5,793 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,026 | Jefferson Township MI | 2,581 | $72K | 14.2% | 1.9% | 1% | B |
| 2,027 | Dayton Township MI | 2,035 | $82K | 11.5% | 1.1% | 2% | B |
| 2,028 | Harrison Township OH | 2,053 | $69K | 5.0% | 5.3% | 5% | B |
| 2,029 | Clay Township PA | 2,473 | $84K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 7% | B |
| 2,030 | Oakboro NC | 2,316 | $69K | 5.5% | 4.0% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | 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 Harrison Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns around Harrison Township
The biggest share goes to Washington Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Harrison Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Township | – | B | C | 26 min | $69,212 |
| Union Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Lake Township | under 2% | C− | B− | 19 min | $56,857 |
| McArthur Township | under 2% | B− | D | 20 min | $73,684 |
| Washington Township | 3% | C− | C+ | 19 min | $54,635 |
| Liberty Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 19 min | $66,912 |
Same-state neighbors only. Union Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Harrison 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 Harrison Township: questions
What is the median household income in Harrison Township?
$69,212 (±$7,333) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harrison Township?
5.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harrison Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harrison Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bellefontaine (22%, 3 mi), Allen Township (7%, 19 mi), Perry Township (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Harrison Township walkable?
Harrison Township is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harrison Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% 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.