Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0How Salt Creek Township works: jobs, income and commuting
About one in ten stay in Salt Creek Township for work; outside it, Paint Township is the main destination (12%, 6 miles). At home: 5% of workers have no commute at all (Ohio 13%). A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes, where Ohio has 23 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Salt Creek Township, in brief
Salt Creek Township makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Salt Creek Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Salt Creek Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 46%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
41% of the jobs based in Salt Creek Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 35% of Salt Creek Township’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Salt Creek Township has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Salt Creek Township went from 736 in 2014 to 1,046 in 2024, +42%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Goods, not services: 60% of the jobs in Salt Creek Township
1,046 jobs are based in Salt Creek Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Salt Creek Township, 2014 → 2024: 736 → 1,046. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Salt Creek Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Salt Creek Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,390 residents head out to work, 179 work right here, and 867 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Salt Creek Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.67 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 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Salt Creek Township to work: where people go
Where Salt Creek Township clocks in
4% 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.
The daily trip from Salt Creek Township: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Salt Creek Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,985 commuters (the 5% 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.
The distance from Salt Creek Township to work
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
18% of Salt Creek Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Salt Creek Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Creek Township | – | — | — | 24 min | $79,844 |
| East Union Township | 3% | A− | B+ | 17 min | $72,778 |
| Franklin Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 21 min | $71,384 |
| Paint Township | 12% | B+ | B+ | 23 min | $86,447 |
| Fredericksburg | 3% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Fredericksburg: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Paint Township. Darker towns draw more of Salt Creek 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 2024, 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 Salt Creek Township: questions
What is the median household income in Salt Creek Township?
$79,844 (±$9,174) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Salt Creek Township?
3.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Salt Creek Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Salt Creek Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paint Township (12%, 6 mi), Akron (4%, 30 mi), Salt Creek Township (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Salt Creek Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 61% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Salt Creek Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Salt Creek Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.