Photo: dok1 · CC BY 2.0Perry Township has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 129 jobs in Perry Township, against 410 working residents. Jobs and income earn Perry Township D; getting around on foot earns it C+. 6% of workers work from home, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Perry Township, in a few figures
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Perry Township
On income, poverty and job access, Perry Township is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Perry Township’s grade up ($60,221, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Perry 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, Perry Township could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Getting to work from Perry Township takes about 46 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perry Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 553 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.
Perry Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 400 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 119 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Perry Township on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 Green Township
Where Perry Township clocks in
15% 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.
65% of the jobs in Perry Township pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perry Township, 2013 → 2023: 74 → 129. 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 Perry Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Perry Township goes to work
About 28% 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 Perry Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perry Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% 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 587 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). 5.8% of Perry Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Perry Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000, Perry Township ranks 4,672nd of 5,397 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,670 | Webster SD | 1,681 | $55K | 15.1% | 0.7% | 44% | D |
| 4,671 | Queen City TX | 1,393 | $43K | 21.3% | 6.5% | 2% | D |
| 4,672 | Perry Township OH | 1,505 | $60K | 18.6% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,673 | Laurens IA | 1,217 | $49K | 15.0% | 6.3% | 42% | D |
| 4,674 | Wakefield MI | 1,689 | $56K | 15.0% | 4.1% | 18% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Perry Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 15% of Perry Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perry Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Township | – | D | C+ | 46 min | $60,221 |
| Raccoon Township | under 2% | D | B− | 21 min | $46,875 |
| Greenfield Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Walnut Township | under 2% | — | — | 57 min | — |
| Green Township | 15% | C− | D | 23 min | $60,089 |
| Madison Township | under 2% | B− | D | 31 min | $71,288 |
Same-state neighbors only. Greenfield Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Walnut Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Green Township. Darker towns draw more of Perry 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 Perry Township: questions
What is the median household income in Perry Township?
$60,221 (±$36,666) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perry Township?
18.6%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perry Township?
46 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perry Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Township (15%, 6 mi), Gallipolis (8%, 11 mi), Rio Grande (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perry Township walkable?
Perry Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perry Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perry Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perry 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.