Photo: dok1 · CC BY 2.0There are 5.7 jobs in Scioto Township for every working resident, and 2,337 people commute in
Scioto Township grades D− for walkability. 2,371 jobs are based in Scioto Township for 418 working residents. 0% of workers work from home (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Scioto Township, in a few figures
Scioto Township fills up on a workday
Scioto Township has 2,371 jobs, 5.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,000 people are in town, more than double the 1,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Scioto Township have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Scioto Township went from 633 in 2013 to 2,371 in 2023, +275%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Scioto Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
91% of the jobs based in Scioto Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 52% of the jobs Scioto Township residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Scioto Township. 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; with 418 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How a workday changes Scioto Township
On a workday 384 residents head out to work and 34 work right here.
About 3,000 people are in Scioto Township on a workday afternoon, 188% more than live here.
5.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 Scioto Township, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scioto Township, 2013 → 2023: 633 → 2,371. 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 Scioto Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Scioto Township, and from where
Where Scioto Township clocks in
13% of workers
8% 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.
About 39 minutes to work from Scioto Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scioto Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 267 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Scioto Township
About 32% 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.
In Scioto Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scioto Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Scioto Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 267 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). 11.2% of Scioto Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Scioto Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Scioto Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Newton Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Scioto Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scioto Township | – | — | D− | 39 min | — |
| Newton Township | 2% | C− | C− | 33 min | $75,341 |
| Valley Township | under 3% | C− | C | 26 min | $64,340 |
| Camp Creek Township | under 3% | B− | D− | 49 min | $79,464 |
| Seal Township | under 3% | D | C− | 22 min | $40,896 |
| Union Township | under 3% | — | D− | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Scioto 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 Scioto Township: questions
What is the poverty rate in Scioto Township?
18.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scioto Township?
39 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scioto Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waverly (13%, 9 mi), Columbus (8%, 68 mi), Chillicothe (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scioto Township walkable?
Scioto Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scioto Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scioto Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scioto 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.