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Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places. A town of 8,680 in Ohio.
Liberty Township’s strongest subject is incomes: the median household earns $100K. The town ranks 521st of 987 in Ohio, with a B overall. Nationally, it does better than 57% of U.S. towns. Homes run about $318K for a typical one, 3.9 times the Columbus metro’s $82K median household income. What counts against it is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than three quarters of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings include Hizey Covered Bridge. The biggest park or preserve is Alt Park, at 124 acres.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · National Register of Historic Places · OpenStreetMap.
Where Liberty Township beats most towns.
Where Liberty Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Liberty Township is from typical.
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The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 2015 and 3 maps from 1907 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Liberty Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaOhio Stadium
21 mi Stadium & arenaHistoric Crew Stadium
21 mi Stadium & arenaScottsMiracle-Gro Field
22 mi Stadium & arenaValue City Arena
32 mi Zoo & aquariumColumbus Zoo and Aquarium
31 mi State parkHocking Hills State ParkOhio Stadium: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Historic Crew Stadium: Rick Dikeman, CC BY-SA 3.0 · ScottsMiracle-Gro Field: Nova Crystallis, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Value City Arena: Nick81aku at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Columbus Zoo and Aquarium: Adolphus79 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Hocking Hills State Park: Ramseybuckeye, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Liberty Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Liberty Township.
Liberty Township sends most of its workers to Columbus and beyond and owes part of its health edge to its incomes.
Liberty Township has 1,116 jobs for its 3,815 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Liberty Township: 15% of workers work from home, above both Ohio’s towns (9.7%) and U.S. towns (11%). Most working residents leave Liberty Township for work: only 7% work in town. Since 2013, Liberty Township has added 230 jobs, to 1,116 in 2023. The top destinations are Columbus (30%), Lancaster (6%) and Baltimore (5%).
| Liberty Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $100,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 15% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The largest public high school is Liberty Union High School, with 349 students. The Liberty Union-Thurston Local school district runs its public schools. Of its 3 schools, two are listed below, each with the reason.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Union Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 445 | B |
| Liberty Union High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 349 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
The range runs from 21° on a January night to 85° on a July afternoon, with about 17 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Against the 8,516 U.S. towns with household incomes like Liberty Township’s, it is less healthy than 56%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
16% of adults report frequent mental distress in Liberty Township. Against the Ohio average, Liberty Township comes out ahead on 9 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 1. Liberty Township: 9.8% of adults worry about having enough food, where Ohio’s towns sit at 13% and U.S. towns at 14%.
| Liberty Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 20% | 19% |
| What stands out | Liberty Township | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 10.4% | 15.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.8% | 14.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Age groups here sit within 4 points of the Ohio average. Since 2020, Liberty Township has grown 5.5%, to 8,680 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Liberty Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 24% | 29% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.2 points. Across Ohio, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Liberty Township | OH | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11% | 11.7% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.4% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.8% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.6% | 12.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.7% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.8% | 13.2% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.5% | 10.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.3% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.5% | 8.2% | 10.4% |
| High school | 30.2% | 32.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 23.4% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.9% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.5% | 19.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.5% | 12.2% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Liberty Township’s natural-hazard score from FEMA is 42 of 100. FEMA puts 70% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 7% to tornadoes. Since 1990, Liberty Township has seen 13 flood insurance claims paid out.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Count the trails in 5 parks and preserves and they come to 1.0 miles.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Smeck Park | 1 mi | 49 |
| 2. Alt Park | — | 124 |
| 3. Johnson Park | — | 16 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
2 within 15 miles of the center of Liberty Township
About 4 of every 100 Liberty Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
3 places in Liberty Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Township in Ohio, US
Liberty Township is one of the thirteen townships of Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 8,214.
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5 towns share a border with Liberty Township.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Township | #521 | B | B− | — | B | B |
| Greenfield Township | #394 | B+ | C+ | — | A− | B− |
| Violet Township | #335 | B+ | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Walnut Township | #555 | B− | C+ | — | B+ | B− |
| Baltimore | #700 | C+ | B | — | B | C+ |
| Harrison Township | #445 | B | C | — | B+ | B+ |
Liberty Township, Greenfield Township, Violet Township, Walnut Township, Baltimore and Harrison Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Liberty Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Liberty Township grades B overall, better than 57% of U.S. towns and #521 of 987 in Ohio. It grades B for health and B for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
