Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0Lawrence Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Jobs and income earn Lawrence Township B+; getting around on foot earns it C+. Lawrence Township has 2,838 jobs for 5,641 working residents. About one in ten work in Lawrence Township; the top destination outside it is Jackson Township (10%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lawrence Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lawrence Township is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #394 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($77,568, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lawrence Township could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Who works in Lawrence Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 5,035 residents head out to work, 606 work right here, and 2,232 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Lawrence Township on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Lawrence Township goes to work
Where Lawrence Township clocks in
10% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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 Lawrence Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lawrence Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,899 → 2,838. 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 Lawrence Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Lawrence Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lawrence Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,110 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Lawrence Township commutes
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 Lawrence Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lawrence Township is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #554 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Lawrence 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 6,866 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). 3.4% of Lawrence Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Lawrence Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Lawrence Township is 910th of 2,059 U.S. towns of 10,000 to 18,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 908 | Wilton Manors FL | 11,655 | $85K | 11.4% | 4.3% | 7% | B+ |
| 909 | Merriam KS | 11,509 | $74K | 6.0% | 5.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 910 | Lawrence Township OH | 13,626 | $78K | 9.1% | 3.3% | 11% | B+ |
| 911 | Whitehall PA | 14,521 | $89K | 6.7% | 6.3% | 6% | B+ |
| 912 | Granbury TX | 13,263 | $74K | 6.9% | 2.7% | 20% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,059 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Lawrence Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
14% of Lawrence Township works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lawrence Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Township | – | B+ | C+ | 26 min | $77,568 |
| New Franklin | under 3% | A− | C | 25 min | $90,244 |
| Jackson Township | 10% | A | B− | 22 min | $93,927 |
| Tuscarawas Township | under 3% | A− | C | 23 min | $87,150 |
| Clinton | under 3% | A− | C− | 24 min | $76,689 |
| Baughman Township | under 3% | A− | C+ | 21 min | $76,705 |
| Green | 4% | A− | C+ | 24 min | $95,047 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Jackson Township. Darker towns draw more of Lawrence 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 Lawrence Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lawrence Township?
$77,568 (±$9,023) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lawrence Township?
9.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lawrence Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lawrence Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson Township (10%, 6 mi), Canal Fulton (8%, 2 mi), Akron (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lawrence Township walkable?
Lawrence Township is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lawrence 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 Lawrence Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lawrence 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.