Photo: Nyttend · Public domainLiberty Township’s household incomes are higher than in 75% of U.S. towns
Liberty Township grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Poverty touches 4.0% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). 2% of workers have no commute at all (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Liberty Township, in brief
Liberty Township makes and builds things
85% 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 38%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Liberty Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
87% of the jobs based in Liberty Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 59% of the jobs Liberty Township residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Liberty Township. The jobs ↓
Few Liberty Township workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 713 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Liberty Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Liberty Township is better than 71% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Liberty Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Liberty 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, Liberty Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Goods, not services: 85% of the jobs in Liberty Township
511 jobs are based in Liberty Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Liberty Township, 2014 → 2024: 299 → 511. 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Liberty Township
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 867 commuters (the 2% 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.
Liberty Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 672 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 470 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Liberty Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Leipsic
Where Liberty Township clocks in
13% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
Where in the region Liberty Township works
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.
Most of Liberty Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Liberty Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 886 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). 1.0% 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.
Ranked on jobs and income, Liberty Township is 1,092nd among 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
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| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
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| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,090 | Ridgetop TN | 2,156 | $85K | 3.5% | 6.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,091 | Lyme NH | 1,715 | $134K | 4.4% | 4.9% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,092 | Liberty Township OH | 1,673 | $98K | 4.0% | 1.2% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,093 | Prospect Township OH | 2,011 | $84K | 6.6% | 2.9% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,094 | Hubbard WI | 1,785 | $91K | 6.5% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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.
Work in the towns next to 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+ | D | 24 min | $98,077 |
| Marion Township | under 2% | C− | C+ | 35 min | $63,250 |
| Palmer Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 23 min | $82,194 |
| Van Buren Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 21 min | $72,717 |
| Ottawa Township | under 2% | A− | B− | 23 min | $89,511 |
| Pleasant Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 27 min | $64,583 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$98,077 (±$23,191) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Liberty Township?
4.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Liberty Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Liberty Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Leipsic (13%, 5 mi), Ottawa (10%, 8 mi), Findlay (9%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Liberty Township walkable?
Liberty Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Liberty Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% 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.