Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Wayne Township works elsewhere
Only 3% stay in Wayne Township for work; outside it, Steubenville is the main destination (19%, 9 miles). Wayne Township has 257 jobs, and 796 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Wayne Township D; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wayne Township, in a few figures
Inside Wayne Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wayne Township is better than 13% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Wayne Township’s grade.
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Wayne Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wayne Township could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How many people are in Wayne Township by day
On a workday 770 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 231 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Wayne Township on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Commuting out of Wayne Township: the destinations
Where Wayne Township clocks in
19% of workers
10% 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 kinds of work in Wayne Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wayne Township, 2013 → 2023: 304 → 257. 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 Wayne Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes each way for Wayne Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wayne Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 713 commuters (the 8% 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.
How many miles Wayne Township commutes
About 20% 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.
Driving is how Wayne Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wayne Township is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wayne 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 778 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). 2.6% of Wayne Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wayne Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,447th of 5,509: where Wayne Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,445 | Chester WV | 2,080 | $57K | 15.6% | 13.7% | 12% | D |
| 4,446 | Lamar Township MO | 1,434 | $57K | 14.7% | 0.0% | 3% | D |
| 4,447 | Wayne Township OH | 2,003 | $61K | 17.3% | 2.9% | 3% | D |
| 4,448 | Clinton WI | 1,461 | $73K | 26.3% | 1.1% | 1% | D |
| 4,449 | Holyoke CO | 2,264 | $52K | 18.0% | 3.9% | 33% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Wayne Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
How Wayne Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wayne Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Township | – | D | C− | 19 min | $61,250 |
| Smithfield Township | under 2% | D | D | 33 min | $57,718 |
| Cross Creek Township | under 2% | B | C− | 25 min | $72,003 |
| Green Township | under 2% | D | B | 28 min | $41,698 |
| Salem Township | under 2% | B− | C+ | 22 min | $70,288 |
| German Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. German Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wayne 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 Wayne Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wayne Township?
$61,250 (±$22,463) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wayne Township?
17.3%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wayne Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wayne Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Steubenville (19%, 9 mi), Wintersville (10%, 7 mi), Weirton (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wayne Township walkable?
Wayne Township is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wayne Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wayne Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wayne 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.