Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Paint Township (0.4%) than in 98% of U.S. towns
Paint Township grades A− for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in seven stay in Paint Township for work; outside it, Walnut Creek Township is the main destination (12%, 5 miles). Measured by household income, Paint Township is ahead of 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Paint Township apart
Paint Township trades workers with the towns around it
Paint Township has about as many jobs (1,898) as working residents (1,627), but they are mostly different people: 1,411 residents leave for work each day while 1,682 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Paint Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Paint Township makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Paint Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Paint Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 50%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
44% of the jobs based in Paint Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 38% of Paint Township’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Paint Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Paint Township fell from 2,774 in 2013 to 1,898 in 2023, −32%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Paint Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Paint Township is better than 83% of U.S. towns, #226 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 56% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Paint Township could be anywhere from B to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Paint Township
On a workday 1,411 residents head out to work, 216 work right here, and 1,682 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Paint Township makes things: 58% of its jobs are in goods
1,898 jobs are based in Paint Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paint Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,774 → 1,898. 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 Paint Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Paint Township ends
Where Paint Township clocks in
12% of workers
8% 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.
From Paint Township, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paint Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,030 commuters (the 9% 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.
How far Paint Township’s workers travel
About 24% 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.
In Paint Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paint Township is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #288 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 35.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,235 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). 56.9% of Paint Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Paint Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Paint Township ranks: 692nd of 3,938 U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 29 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 56 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
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| 62 | Sharon Township OH | 6,117 | $126K | 1.8% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 690 | High Ridge MO | 3,714 | $71K | 7.2% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 691 | Deer Park OH | 5,557 | $83K | 9.7% | 1.6% | 2% | A− |
| 692 | Paint Township OH | 4,602 | $97K | 8.1% | 0.4% | 13% | A− |
| 693 | Sugarloaf Township PA | 4,068 | $103K | 4.0% | 3.2% | 7% | A− |
| 694 | Tierra Verde FL | 4,108 | $151K | 2.2% | 5.2% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Paint Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Bordering towns draw 16% of Paint Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Paint Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paint Township | – | A− | B | 19 min | $97,432 |
| Salt Creek Township | 4% | B+ | B | 18 min | $85,250 |
| Wayne Township | under 3% | C+ | C+ | 21 min | $86,368 |
| Walnut Creek Township | 12% | B | B+ | 17 min | $100,720 |
| Mount Hope | under 3% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Mount Hope: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Walnut Creek Township. Darker towns draw more of Paint 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 Paint Township: questions
What is the median household income in Paint Township?
$97,432 (±$29,232) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paint Township?
8.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paint Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paint Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walnut Creek Township (12%, 5 mi), Berlin (8%, 7 mi), Columbus (6%, 81 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Paint Township walkable?
Paint Township is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 35% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paint Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 57% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paint Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paint 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.