Liberty Township draws 1,897 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
About one in ten work in Liberty Township itself; outside it, Napoleon draws the most (14%, 5 miles). 1,987 jobs are based in Liberty Township for 989 working residents. Liberty Township grades B for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Liberty Township stands out on work
Liberty Township is where the jobs are
Liberty Township has 1,987 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,500 people are in town, 40% more than the 2,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Liberty Township makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Liberty Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Liberty Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 989 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Liberty Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Liberty Township is better than 55% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Liberty Township’s grade up (2.8%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (12.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Liberty Township could be anywhere from C to A.
Who works in Liberty Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 899 residents head out to work and 90 work right here.
About 3,500 people are in Liberty Township on a workday afternoon, 40% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Goods jobs make up 49% of work in Liberty Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Liberty Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,734 → 1,987. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Liberty Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Liberty Township’s workforce comes from
Where Liberty Township clocks in
14% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
About 23 minutes each way, about the OH average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Liberty Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 926 commuters (the 8% 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 from Liberty Township, by distance
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Liberty Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Liberty Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Liberty 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 1,004 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). 3.3% of Liberty Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Liberty Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,400, Liberty Township ranks 2,096th of 5,401 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 30 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,094 | Shinnston WV | 2,241 | $70K | 11.8% | 2.1% | 9% | B |
| 2,095 | Bainbridge Township MI | 2,625 | $75K | 7.3% | 3.8% | 5% | B |
| 2,096 | Liberty Township OH | 2,482 | $76K | 12.4% | 2.8% | 9% | B |
| 2,097 | Wabasso Beach FL | 2,262 | $116K | 10.2% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 2,098 | Midway KY | 1,787 | $62K | 8.2% | 8.8% | 13% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,401 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Liberty Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 16% of Liberty Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Liberty Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Township | – | B | C− | 23 min | $75,551 |
| Harrison Township | under 2% | B | D− | 24 min | $68,355 |
| Napoleon Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| York Township | under 2% | B | C | 25 min | $75,263 |
| Napoleon | 14% | B+ | B− | 20 min | $76,639 |
| Washington Township | 2% | B+ | C− | 28 min | $87,996 |
Same-state neighbors only. Napoleon Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Napoleon. Darker towns draw more of Liberty 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 2024, 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 Liberty Township: questions
What is the median household income in Liberty Township?
$75,551 (±$10,225) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Liberty Township?
12.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Liberty Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Liberty Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Napoleon (14%, 5 mi), Archbold (6%, 13 mi), Wauseon (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Liberty Township walkable?
Liberty Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Liberty Township without a car?
0% 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 Liberty Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Liberty Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.