Scipio TownshipOH
A town of 1,693, settled in 1825.
Is Scipio Township a good place to live?
The best of Scipio Township’s subject grades are an A for schools and an A− for civic life; the weakest is a D for incomes. On incomes, just 118 of Ohio’s 1,707 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. Scipio Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Scipio Township stand out
Where Scipio Township beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Scipio Township for work
Where Scipio Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Scipio Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Scipio Township is from typical.
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Moving to Scipio Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Scipio Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Scipio Township.
Most of Scipio Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.3 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Scipio Township for work: only 2% work in town. 21% of residents live below the poverty line in Scipio Township, where Ohio’s towns sit at 9.1% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Since 2013, Scipio Township has added 33 jobs, to 186 in 2023.
| Scipio Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 21% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $53,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Scipio Township faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 73% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Health in Scipio Township trails 67% of U.S. towns
Scipio Township beats the Ohio average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 18% of adults binge drink in Scipio Township, against 17% in Ohio’s towns and 16% across U.S. towns. 29% of Scipio Township adults get no exercise outside work.
| Scipio Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 28% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 13% | 12% |
| What stands out | Scipio Township | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults seeing a dentist | 58.4% | 62.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Scipio Township
Scipio Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 19° and about 30 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Scipio Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Scipio Township
About 1 of every 100 Scipio Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Scipio Township
Unincorporated community in Indiana and Ohio, US
Scipio is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Indiana, and Butler County, Ohio, United States. It is at the intersection of State Routes 126 and 129.
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Scipio Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Scipio Township.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scipio Township | — | — | C+ | — | A | C |
| Clinton Township | #298 | B+ | A− | — | B | B− |
| Adams Township | — | — | A− | — | A− | C+ |
| Bloom Township | — | — | A | — | A | C |
| Reed Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Scipio Township, Adams Township and Bloom Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Scipio Township, Clinton Township, Adams Township and Bloom Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Reed Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Scipio Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Scipio Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Scipio Township, OH expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.