Photo: Nyttend · Public domainPerry Township has higher household incomes than 80% of U.S. towns
Perry Township grades A− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Poverty touches 6.2% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). About one in ten work in Perry Township; the top destination outside it is Mentor (16%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Perry Township, in brief
Jobs & income in Perry Township: the grade in detail
Household income is its strongest input ($103,882, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Perry Township could be anywhere from B+ to A.
41% of the jobs in Perry Township make or build things
3,073 jobs are based in Perry Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perry Township, 2013 → 2023: 3,766 → 3,073. 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Perry Township
On a workday 3,845 residents head out to work, 505 work right here, and 2,568 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,600 people are in Perry Township on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.71 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.
Commuting out of Perry Township: the destinations
Where Perry Township clocks in
16% of workers
11% 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.
Getting to work from Perry Township takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 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 4,239 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.
Half of Perry Township commutes less than 15 miles
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 60% of U.S. towns, #314 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Perry Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,677 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 44% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 26% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Perry Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Perry Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Perry Township ranks: 789th of 2,878 U.S. towns of 6,200 to 11,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
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| 8 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 15 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
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| 25 | Madeira OH | 9,637 | $168K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
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| 787 | Clarkson NY | 6,831 | $83K | 7.8% | 1.5% | 3% | A− |
| 788 | Brimfield Township OH | 11,511 | $91K | 7.5% | 2.9% | 5% | A− |
| 789 | Perry Township OH | 8,835 | $104K | 6.2% | 3.4% | 12% | A− |
| 790 | Tucson Mountains AZ | 11,353 | $134K | 8.9% | 3.0% | 2% | A− |
| 791 | Cumberland IN | 8,066 | $87K | 6.4% | 3.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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.
Perry Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Painesville Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perry Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Township | – | A− | B | 27 min | $103,882 |
| Leroy Township | under 2% | A+ | D | 27 min | $114,250 |
| Painesville Township | 4% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Madison Township | 2% | B− | B− | 28 min | $73,533 |
Same-state neighbors only. Painesville Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$103,882 (±$10,423) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perry Township?
6.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perry Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perry Township work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mentor (16%, 15 mi), Cleveland (11%, 38 mi), Painesville (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perry Township walkable?
Perry Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perry Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 26% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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.