Households in Piketon earn less than those in 95% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 13% across Ohio. Poverty touches 30.1% of residents; Ohio has 13.3%. Piketon grades D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Piketon at work: what stands out
How Piketon earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Piketon is better than 4% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Piketon’s grade up (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (10.0%) is left out: Piketon’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, Piketon could be anywhere from D− to D.
The daily trip from Piketon: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piketon workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 755 commuters (the 0% 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.
Who works in Piketon, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 710 residents head out to work, 72 work right here, and 874 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 (1.21 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.
18% of working residents work in Waverly
Where Piketon clocks in
18% of workers
7% 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.
What Piketon’s employers do
946 jobs are based in Piketon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piketon, 2013 → 2023: 1,197 → 946. 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 Piketon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Piketon to work
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.
Most of Piketon commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Piketon is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 755 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). 7.1% of Piketon households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Piketon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Piketon sits among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000
| # | 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+ |
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| 21 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,279 | Murphy NC | 1,808 | $37K | 17.5% | 5.6% | 21% | D− |
| 5,280 | McArthur OH | 1,764 | $49K | 26.7% | 4.8% | 12% | D− |
| 5,281 | Piketon OH | 2,201 | $41K | 30.1% | 10.0% | 9% | D− |
| 5,282 | Wautoma WI | 2,411 | $32K | 26.1% | 9.9% | 20% | D− |
| 5,283 | Sparta Township PA | 1,884 | $58K | 33.9% | 14.2% | 4% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | 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 Piketon, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door to Piketon
The biggest share goes to Seal Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Piketon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piketon | – | D− | C− | 20 min | $41,313 |
| Seal Township | 3% | D | C− | 22 min | $40,896 |
| Pee Pee Township | under 3% | C− | B− | 20 min | $57,269 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Piketon’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 Piketon: questions
What is the median household income in Piketon?
$41,313 (±$9,412) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piketon?
30.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piketon?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Piketon work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waverly (18%, 4 mi), Columbus (7%, 64 mi), Chillicothe (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Piketon walkable?
Piketon is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Piketon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Piketon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piketon
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.