Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Rice Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Rice Township report 275 jobs, and 569 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Rice Township is better than 32% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (D). Home is the office for 1% of workers, where Ohio as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Rice Township at work: what stands out
Rice Township and Fremont trade workers both ways
Fremont is the top workplace for Rice Township residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Rice Township come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Rice Township workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 569 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Rice Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Rice Township’s grade up (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Rice 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, Rice Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
22% of working residents work in Fremont
Where Rice Township clocks in
22% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Rice Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rice Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 590 commuters (the 1% 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.
A workday in Rice Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 562 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 268 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Rice Township on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Rice Township works in goods: 72% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rice Township, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 275. 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 Rice Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Rice Township
About 20% 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.
Driving is how Rice Township gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 596 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 Rice Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rice Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Rice Township is 2,619th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
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| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,617 | Hogan Township IN | 1,152 | $76K | 11.2% | 0.0% | 3% | C |
| 2,618 | Franklin Township OH | 1,661 | $79K | 19.5% | 6.7% | 1% | C |
| 2,619 | Rice Township OH | 1,237 | $72K | 17.0% | 4.4% | 1% | C |
| 2,620 | Bloomer WI | 1,085 | $79K | 14.4% | 5.4% | 3% | C |
| 2,621 | Sigel WI | 1,017 | $68K | 10.5% | 2.4% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Rice Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door to Rice Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rice Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Township | – | C | D | 20 min | $71,823 |
| Riley Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 22 min | $61,806 |
| Sandusky Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 18 min | $82,796 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | A− | D | 23 min | $86,167 |
| Wightmans Grove | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Salem Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 25 min | $61,962 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wightmans Grove: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rice 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 Rice Township: questions
What is the median household income in Rice Township?
$71,823 (±$26,359) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rice Township?
17.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rice Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rice Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fremont (22%, 6 mi), Clyde (5%, 12 mi), Toledo (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rice Township walkable?
Rice Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rice 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 Rice Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rice 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.