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Jobs & commute in Henrietta Township

Henrietta Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each

266 jobs are based in Henrietta Township; 877 of its residents have a job. Henrietta Township grades B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 6% work in Henrietta Township; the top destination outside it is Cleveland (10%, 34 miles).

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

What stands out · In brief

Work and commuting in Henrietta Township, in brief

Henrietta Township’s biggest commute is a long one

The top workplace outside Henrietta Township is Cleveland, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (92) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓

Henrietta Township is a place people come home to

There are 266 jobs based in Henrietta Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Henrietta Township has about 1,200 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓

Henrietta Township workers spend longer getting to work

The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical 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 877 working residents, small shifts move the shares.

Jobs & income grade

What drives the Jobs & income grade in Henrietta Township

On income, poverty and job access, Henrietta Township is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Henrietta Township’s grade up (8.1%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($71,597, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.

Household income $71,597 (±$19,428) · OH $71,389 · U.S. $80,734Higher than 44% of U.S. towns
Poverty 8.1% · OH 13.3% · U.S. 12.5%Lower than 60% of U.S. towns
Job access by car EPA, jobs within a 45-minute driveMore than 55% of U.S. towns

Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Henrietta Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.

CA−

A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Henrietta Township could be anywhere from C to A−.

How TownRatings grades jobs & income →

★ What stands out · How far

The distance from Henrietta Township to work

10 mi25 mi40 miCleveland: 10% · 34.2 miElyria: 8% · 11.4 miLorain: 5% · 10.1 miAvon Lake: 4% · 19 miOberlin: 4% · 5.5 miAmherst: 4% · 6.6 miVermilion: 3% · 5.5 miAvon: 3% · 17.6 miCarlisle Township: 2% · 9.7 miCleveland 10%Elyria 8%Lorain 5%Avon Lake 4%Oberlin 4%Henrietta Township
Henrietta TownshipTop destinations (size = commuters)
28%Under 10 mi245 residents
35%10–24 mi309 residents
26%25–50 mi227 residents
11%Over 50 mi94 residents

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.

Day and night

Henrietta Township by day and by night

On a workday 828 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 217 people come in from elsewhere.

828live here, work elsewhere
49live and work here
217work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,800
Workday1,200
1,800live here− 830head out to work+ 220come in to work= 1,200on a workday

About 1,200 people are in Henrietta Township on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.30jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

Time on the road

From Henrietta Township, about 29 minutes to the job

A year of commuting
220 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Henrietta Township29 min
Ohio23 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
7%

of Henrietta Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How Henrietta Township gets to work
79%Drive alone
17%Carpool
1%Transit
1%Walk
1%Bike

Share of the 787 commuters (the 7% 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 commute map

Where Henrietta Township goes to work

Oberlin: 34 residents work here (4%)Amherst: 33 residents work here (4%)Vermilion: 30 residents work here (3%)Avon Lake: 35 residents work here (4%)Lorain: 48 residents work here (5%)North RidgevilleAvon: 27 residents work here (3%)Elyria: 71 residents work here (8%)Cleveland: 92 residents work here (10%)Brownhelm TownshipCarlisle Township: 18 residents work here (2%)Camden TownshipFlorence TownshipBerlin TownshipHenrietta TownshipNew Russia TownshipClevelandElyriaLorainAvon LakeOberlinAmherstHenrietta Township
1
Cleveland34.2 mi away
10%92
2
Elyria11.4 mi away
8%71
3
Henrietta Township (in town)right here
6%49
4
Lorain10.1 mi away
5%48
5
Avon Lake19 mi away
4%35
6
Oberlin5.5 mi away
4%34
7
Amherst6.6 mi away
4%33
8
Vermilion5.5 mi away
3%30
9
Avon17.6 mi away
3%27
102%18
Everywhere elseother towns and states
50%440
The top trips

Where Henrietta Township clocks in

Lines 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.

The jobs

Jobs in Henrietta Township: what the 266 are

Jobs based in Henrietta TownshipJobs Henrietta Township residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms14%26%
Trade, transport & utilities8%17%
Services: health, schools, offices78%57%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less17%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month31%22%
Over $3,333 a month52%66%

Who does it

29 or younger12%18%
30 to 5453%51%
55 and older34%31%
+9%

Jobs based in Henrietta Township, 2013 → 2023: 243 → 266. 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 Henrietta Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Getting around · Walkability grade

Most trips from Henrietta Township start in a car

On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Henrietta Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.4.

EPA walkability index 4.4 of 20 · typical OH town 5.9 · U.S. 6.9Higher than 13% of U.S. towns
Walk, bike or transit 3.0% of commuters · OH 3.7% · U.S. 7.1%Higher than 59% of U.S. towns
CC

A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 843 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). 4.2% of Henrietta Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Henrietta Township’s commuters take a bus or train.

Towns its size

For jobs and income, Henrietta Township is 1,828th of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400

#TownPeopleHousehold incomePovertyUnemploymentWork in townGrade
1Chevy Chase Village MD1,978$250K1.2%2.6%3%A+
2Plandome NY1,482$250K0.9%1.4%1%A+
3Hewlett Harbor NY1,332$250K1.9%7.2%2%A+
…
22New California OH1,672$162K0.0%1.1%<1%A+
…
42Millcreek Township OH1,562$151K2.3%0.0%1%A+
…
55Bratenahl OH1,396$138K4.4%0.8%1%A+
…
1,826Winfield WV2,381$103K15.9%2.6%7%B−
1,827Paint Township OH1,779$84K10.3%3.7%2%B−
1,828Henrietta Township OH1,800$72K8.1%4.4%6%B−
1,829Coolspring Township PA2,076$88K9.4%3.9%4%B−
1,830Caledonia WI1,489$98K14.2%2.2%2%B−
…
5,343Paraje NM1,333$33K61.7%0.0%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 Henrietta Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.

Next door

Around Henrietta Township: the bordering towns

Camden Township: few work hereBrownhelm Township: few work hereNew Russia Township: few work hereFlorence Township: few work hereCamden TownshipBrownhelm TownshipNew Russia TownshipFlorence TownshipHenrietta Township
10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

New Russia Township27 min
Brownhelm Township28 min
Henrietta Township29 min
Camden Township30 min
Florence Township41 min

Jobs & commute next door

TownHenrietta Township workers thereJobs & incomeWalkabilityCommuteHousehold income
Henrietta Township–B−C29 min$71,597
Camden Townshipunder 3%BD30 min$60,156
Brownhelm Townshipunder 3%C+C28 min$62,452
New Russia Townshipunder 3%B+B27 min$82,583
Florence Townshipunder 3%B+D41 min$111,048

Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.

Darker towns draw more of Henrietta Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Henrietta Township: questions

What is the median household income in Henrietta Township?

$71,597 (±$19,428) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Henrietta Township?

8.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Henrietta Township?

29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.

Where do people who live in Henrietta Township work?

6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (10%, 34 mi), Elyria (8%, 11 mi), Lorain (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Is Henrietta Township walkable?

Henrietta Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.

Can you get around Henrietta Township without a car?

1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Henrietta Township, from the people who make the trip.

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Beyond the commute

More of Henrietta Township

Henrietta Township home →

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.