Scipio Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 186 jobs in Scipio Township, against 728 working residents. Scipio Township grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Scipio Township is behind 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Scipio Township, in a few figures
Where Scipio Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Scipio Township is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Scipio Township’s grade up (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (11.7%) is left out: Scipio 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, Scipio Township could be anywhere from D− to B.
A workday in Scipio Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 715 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 173 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Scipio Township on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
15% of working residents work in Tiffin
Where Scipio Township clocks in
15% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
What Scipio Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scipio Township, 2013 → 2023: 153 → 186. 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 Scipio Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Scipio Township: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scipio Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 635 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.
Where in the region Scipio Township works
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Scipio Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scipio Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Scipio 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 683 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). 0.9% of Scipio Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Scipio Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Scipio Township places 4,760th of 5,760 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,758 | Bangor NY | 2,201 | $65K | 19.0% | 0.3% | 2% | D |
| 4,759 | Sherman NY | 1,636 | $52K | 15.1% | 6.4% | 9% | D |
| 4,760 | Scipio Township OH | 1,693 | $53K | 21.1% | 11.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,761 | Troy Township PA | 1,572 | $63K | 18.2% | 3.3% | 11% | D |
| 4,762 | Crossville AL | 1,851 | $49K | 21.1% | 3.8% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Scipio Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door to Scipio Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Scipio Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scipio Township | – | D | D | 26 min | $52,500 |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 20 min | $93,355 |
| Adams Township | under 2% | A− | C | 16 min | $106,607 |
| Bloom Township | under 2% | C | D | 28 min | $78,226 |
| Reed Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Reed Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Scipio 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 Scipio Township: questions
What is the median household income in Scipio Township?
$52,500 (±$25,432) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scipio Township?
21.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scipio Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scipio Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tiffin (15%, 8 mi), Bellevue (6%, 14 mi), Fremont (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scipio Township walkable?
Scipio Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scipio Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scipio Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scipio 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.