Photo: Nyttend · Public domainIsrael Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Israel Township report 164 jobs, and 450 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Israel Township is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 2% work in Israel Township itself; outside it, Eaton draws the most (19%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Israel Township stands out on work
What’s behind Israel Township’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Israel Township’s grade up (2.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Israel 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, Israel Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Israel Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Israel Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 352 commuters (the 10% 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.
Israel Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 441 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 155 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Israel Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Israel Township goes to work
Where Israel Township clocks in
19% of workers
10% 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.
Most jobs in Israel Township are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Israel Township, 2013 → 2023: 65 → 164. 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 Israel Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Israel Township
About 19% 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.
Driving is how Israel Township gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 391 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). 3.1% of Israel Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Israel Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
905th of 3,771: where Israel Township ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Boston Heights OH | 1,408 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 903 | Independence Township IL | 1,135 | $79K | 1.8% | 6.2% | 1% | B |
| 904 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| 905 | Israel Township OH | 1,131 | $70K | 2.5% | 0.8% | 2% | B |
| 906 | Lower Tyrone Township PA | 1,028 | $75K | 6.9% | 3.3% | <1% | B |
| 907 | Grizzly Flats CA | 1,410 | $92K | 1.6% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Israel Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work in the towns next to Israel Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Israel Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israel Township | – | B | B− | 29 min | $69,630 |
| Somers Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 29 min | $64,350 |
| Oxford Township | under 2% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| College Corner | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Dixon Township | under 2% | — | — | 42 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oxford Township: not graded. College Corner and Dixon Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Israel 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 Israel Township: questions
What is the median household income in Israel Township?
$69,630 (±$12,970) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Israel Township?
2.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Israel Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Israel Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eaton (19%, 12 mi), Oxford (10%, 7 mi), Richmond (10%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Israel Township walkable?
Israel Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Israel Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Israel Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Israel 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.