With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Mill Creek Township works elsewhere
Mill Creek Township has 140 jobs, and 401 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Mill Creek Township are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Measured by household income, Mill Creek Township is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mill Creek Township: the figures worth knowing
Inside Mill Creek Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mill Creek Township is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mill Creek Township’s grade up ($120,833, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Mill Creek Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mill Creek Township could be anywhere from C− to A−.
From Mill Creek Township, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mill Creek Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 448 commuters (the 21% 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.
A workday in Mill Creek Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 397 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Mill Creek Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
15% of working residents work in Coshocton
Where Mill Creek Township clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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.
Mill Creek Township works in goods: 84% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mill Creek Township, 2013 → 2023: 45 → 140. 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 Mill Creek Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Mill Creek Township
About 25% 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 Mill Creek Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mill Creek Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 29.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 569 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). 63.1% of Mill Creek Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mill Creek Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Mill Creek Township is 542nd of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 35 | Sharon Center OH | 1,129 | $111K | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Granville South OH | 1,146 | $131K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 540 | Fairbank IA | 1,145 | $90K | 4.1% | 1.4% | 4% | B+ |
| 541 | Washington Township IN | 1,173 | $73K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 542 | Mill Creek Township OH | 1,050 | $121K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 543 | West Leechburg PA | 1,232 | $77K | 4.1% | 4.9% | <1% | B+ |
| 544 | Riesel TX | 1,061 | $98K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Mill Creek Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Mill Creek Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mill Creek Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Creek Township | – | B+ | B | 25 min | $120,833 |
| Clark Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Keene Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 19 min | $72,750 |
| Crawford Township | under 2% | B− | B− | 25 min | $79,868 |
| Mechanic Township | under 2% | B | B+ | 23 min | $90,613 |
Same-state neighbors only. Clark Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mill Creek Township?
$120,833 (±$56,573) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mill Creek Township?
5.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mill Creek Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mill Creek Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coshocton (15%, 10 mi), Tuscarawas Township (5%, 9 mi), Columbus (5%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mill Creek Township walkable?
Mill Creek Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 29% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mill Creek Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 63% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mill Creek Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mill Creek 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.