Zollinger, S., Company Building · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHouseholds in Piqua earn less than those in 62% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Piqua; the top destination outside it is Troy (12%, 7 miles). Poverty touches 17.6% of residents, next to 13.3% for Ohio as a whole. For jobs and income Piqua is better than 45% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Piqua at work: what stands out
Piqua trades workers with the towns around it
Piqua has about as many jobs (8,350) as working residents (9,307), but they are mostly different people: 7,150 residents leave for work each day while 6,193 people come in. Only 26% of the jobs in Piqua are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Piqua makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Piqua are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Piqua residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. 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.
Where Piqua’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Piqua’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Piqua could be anywhere from C to B.
Who commutes out of Piqua, and who commutes in
On a workday 7,150 residents head out to work, 2,157 work right here, and 6,193 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 (0.90 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.
In Piqua, 35% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
8,350 jobs are based in Piqua.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piqua, 2013 → 2023: 8,483 → 8,350. 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 Piqua’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The places Piqua commutes to
Where Piqua clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
3% 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.
Each way, about 19 minutes from Piqua
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piqua workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,353 commuters (the 7% 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 Piqua’s workers travel
About 18% 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.
Piqua is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 10,076 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). 8.0% of Piqua households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Piqua’s commuters take a bus or train.
Piqua next to U.S. towns of 15,000 to 28,000: 1,189th of 1,705 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Powell OH | 18,269 | $195K | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Genoa Township OH | 27,720 | $177K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,187 | Romulus MI | 24,547 | $69K | 13.5% | 6.7% | 13% | B− |
| 1,188 | Southern Pines NC | 17,357 | $89K | 9.6% | 6.7% | 19% | B− |
| 1,189 | Piqua OH | 21,064 | $68K | 17.6% | 3.7% | 23% | B− |
| 1,190 | Sweetwater FL | 20,828 | $55K | 16.3% | 4.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,191 | Fort Carson CO | 18,019 | $66K | 15.3% | 3.7% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,705 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Piqua, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Around Piqua: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Springcreek Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Piqua workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piqua | – | B− | B | 19 min | $67,796 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | A− | B− | 20 min | $80,246 |
| Springcreek Township | 2% | B+ | C | 30 min | $68,707 |
| Staunton Township | under 2% | A− | D | 24 min | $111,458 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Piqua’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 Piqua: questions
What is the median household income in Piqua?
$67,796 (±$7,175) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piqua?
17.6%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piqua?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Piqua work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Troy (12%, 7 mi), Sidney (7%, 11 mi), Dayton (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Piqua walkable?
Piqua is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Piqua without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Piqua, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piqua
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.