Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMalta Township’s household incomes are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Malta Township are D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Below the poverty line: 17.6% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). Only 7% work in Malta Township itself; outside it, McConnelsville draws the most (10%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Malta Township and work: the main findings
How Malta Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Malta Township is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Malta Township’s grade.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Malta 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, Malta Township could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Malta Township
On a workday 543 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 394 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.75 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Malta Township’s working residents head each day
Where Malta Township clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Malta Township makes things: 31% of its jobs are in goods
436 jobs are based in Malta Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Malta Township, 2013 → 2023: 164 → 436. 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 Malta Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Malta Township: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Malta Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 583 commuters (the 6% 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.
Half of Malta Township commutes less than 21 miles
About 26% 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 Malta Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Malta Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 621 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). 7.7% of Malta Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Malta Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Malta Township is 5,156th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,154 | Lubec ME | 1,237 | $52K | 14.7% | 2.7% | 20% | D |
| 5,155 | Rutland Township OH | 2,084 | $40K | 17.3% | 6.1% | 2% | D |
| 5,156 | Malta Township OH | 1,670 | $54K | 17.6% | 0.0% | 7% | D |
| 5,157 | Lake Butler FL | 1,921 | $50K | 24.7% | 12.3% | 17% | D |
| 5,158 | Pawnee OK | 1,974 | $41K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 35% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Malta Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 27% of Malta Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Malta Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malta Township | – | D | D | 25 min | $54,306 |
| Morgan Township | 6% | C− | B+ | 23 min | $47,337 |
| Deerfield Township | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| McConnelsville | 10% | D | A− | 22 min | $50,231 |
| Malta | 5% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Penn Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Bloom Township | 6% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Union Township | under 2% | — | — | 52 min | — |
| Windsor Township | under 2% | D | D | 44 min | $55,714 |
Same-state neighbors only. Deerfield Township, Malta, Penn Township, Bloom Township and Union Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to McConnelsville. Darker towns draw more of Malta 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 Malta Township: questions
What is the median household income in Malta Township?
$54,306 (±$7,452) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Malta Township?
17.6%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Malta Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Malta Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McConnelsville (10%, 3 mi), Zanesville (7%, 23 mi), Bloom Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Malta Township walkable?
Malta Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Malta Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Malta Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Malta 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.