Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,030.
Valley Township’s best subject grade is an A for history; its weakest is a D for walkability. 33% of residents are under 18 in Valley Township, above both Ohio’s towns (22%) and U.S. towns (22%). On incomes, just 131 of Ohio’s 1,707 towns do worse. Homes are within reach, about $135K for a typical one, or 2.3 years of the Cambridge area’s $58K median household income. Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church is on the National Register of Historic Places. Valley Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Valley Township beats most towns.
Where Valley Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Valley Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2007.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Valley 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Valley Township.
Valley Township beats the Ohio average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 18% of adults smoke cigarettes in Valley Township, above both the Ohio town median (16%) and the median of U.S. towns (14%). 31% of Valley Township adults get no exercise outside work.
| Valley Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 28% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 13% | 12% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| What stands out | Valley Township | OH |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10% | 8% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.5% | 7.1% |
| More smokers | 18.3% | 15.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its one school is below. The largest public high school is Buffalo Campus, with 326 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo CampusLargest public high schoolGrades 10–12 | Grades 10–12 | 326 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 83% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most working residents leave Valley Township for work: only 2% work in town. 16% of residents live below the poverty line in Valley Township. Jobs based in Valley Township grew to 441 in 2023, 121 more than in 2013.
| Valley Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 16% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $56,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.5% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Valley Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 20° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.5 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
| Valley Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.4% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
1 within 15 miles of the center of Valley Township
About 8 of every 100 Valley Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
Township in Ohio, US
Valley Township is one of the nineteen townships of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,041.
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4 towns share a border with Valley Township.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Township | — | — | A− | — | B− | C− |
| Jackson Township | #903 | C− | B+ | — | B− | D |
| Spencer Township | — | — | A+ | — | B− | C− |
| Richland Township | — | — | B− | — | B− | C− |
| Buffalo Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Valley Township, Spencer Township and Richland Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Valley Township, Jackson Township, Spencer Township and Richland Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Buffalo Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Valley Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.
