Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Pickaway Township draws 1,812 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Pickaway Township A−; getting around on foot earns it C. There are 1,861 jobs in Pickaway Township for 1,047 working residents. Measured by household income, Pickaway Township is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Pickaway Township: the gist
Pickaway Township makes and builds things
77% of the jobs based in Pickaway Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Pickaway Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Pickaway Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Pickaway Township is Columbus, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (258) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Pickaway Township is where the jobs are
Pickaway Township has 1,861 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Most jobs in Pickaway Township pay over $40,000 a year
76% of the jobs based in Pickaway Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Pickaway Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Pickaway Township fell from 2,603 in 2013 to 1,861 in 2023, −29%. 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 Pickaway Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Pickaway Township is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pickaway Township’s grade up (3.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Pickaway 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, Pickaway Township could be anywhere from B to A.
77% of the jobs in Pickaway Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pickaway Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,603 → 1,861. 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 Pickaway Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Pickaway Township’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
How many people are in Pickaway Township by day
On a workday 998 residents head out to work and 49 work right here.
About 3,000 people are in Pickaway Township on a workday afternoon, 38% more 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.
Where Pickaway Township’s workforce comes from
Where Pickaway Township clocks in
25% of workers
8% 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.
The daily trip from Pickaway Township: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pickaway Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 771 commuters (the 13% 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.
For most of Pickaway Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pickaway Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 889 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). 0.0% of Pickaway Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pickaway Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900, Pickaway Township ranks 794th of 5,404 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 792 | Hillsdale Township MI | 2,000 | $89K | 2.4% | 1.9% | 2% | A− |
| 793 | Clear Lake Township MN | 1,754 | $91K | 4.8% | 3.4% | 2% | A− |
| 794 | Pickaway Township OH | 2,136 | $99K | 3.2% | 3.6% | 5% | A− |
| 795 | Denver IA | 1,954 | $92K | 6.7% | 2.0% | 8% | A− |
| 796 | Western Township IL | 2,854 | $99K | 4.4% | 3.6% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Pickaway Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door to Pickaway Township
The biggest share goes to Green Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pickaway Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pickaway Township | – | A− | C | 28 min | $99,056 |
| Wayne Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Union Township | under 2% | C+ | D | 31 min | $81,069 |
| Saltcreek Township | 2% | B | C | 32 min | $73,317 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | A | D− | 27 min | $105,273 |
| Green Township | 5% | B− | D | 26 min | $93,550 |
| Circleville Township | 2% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $70,435 |
| Logan Elm Village | under 2% | B− | C+ | 20 min | $84,750 |
| Clearcreek Township | under 2% | B | D | 29 min | $97,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wayne Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pickaway 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 Pickaway Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pickaway Township?
$99,056 (±$16,851) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pickaway Township?
3.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pickaway Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pickaway Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (25%, 32 mi), Circleville (8%, 6 mi), Chillicothe (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pickaway Township walkable?
Pickaway Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pickaway Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pickaway Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pickaway 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.