Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0Homer Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 35 jobs in Homer Township, and 675 of its residents work somewhere. Homer Township grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Hardly any stay in Homer Township for work; outside it, Cleveland is the main destination (11%, 38 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Homer Township, in a few figures
Homer Township is a place people come home to
There are 35 jobs based in Homer Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Homer Township has about 1,000 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Homer Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Homer Township is Cleveland, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (74) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The quickest commute around
Homer Township’s 28-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 33 to 39 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 675 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Homer Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Homer Township is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Homer Township’s grade up (ahead of 56% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.8%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Homer 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, Homer Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Homer Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 671 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Homer Township on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Homer Township
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.
Where the trip to work from Homer Township ends
Where Homer Township clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
What Homer Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Homer Township, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 35. 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 Homer Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Homer Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Homer Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 703 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 in Homer Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Homer Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Ohio, on an EPA index of 2.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 758 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.9% of Homer Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Homer Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Homer Township ranks 2,795th of 6,161 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,793 | Fayette Township MI | 1,107 | $76K | 11.4% | 1.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,794 | Erie Township MN | 1,737 | $74K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,795 | Homer Township OH | 1,639 | $76K | 15.8% | 1.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,796 | Keaau HI | 1,436 | $85K | 11.5% | 2.2% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,797 | Umapine OR | 1,215 | $56K | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 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 Homer Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work in the towns next to Homer Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Homer Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homer Township | – | C+ | C | 28 min | $76,468 |
| Spencer Township | under 2% | A+ | D− | 39 min | $104,637 |
| Sullivan Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 33 min | $66,541 |
| Harrisville Township | under 2% | B | C− | 35 min | $90,795 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Homer 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 Homer Township: questions
What is the median household income in Homer Township?
$76,468 (±$7,565) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Homer Township?
15.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Homer Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Homer Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (11%, 38 mi), Medina (9%, 15 mi), Akron (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Homer Township walkable?
Homer Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Homer Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Homer Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Homer 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.