Photo: Bwsmith84 · CC BY 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Wills Township works elsewhere
Only 4% stay in Wills Township for work; outside it, Cambridge is the main destination (27%, 10 miles). Employers in Wills Township report 316 jobs, and 650 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Wills Township is better than 30% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wills Township: the figures worth knowing
Income, poverty and work: Wills Township’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Wills Township’s grade up (8.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (11.6%) is left out: Wills 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, Wills Township could be anywhere from D to B.
The places Wills Township commutes to
Where Wills Township clocks in
27% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Who commutes out of Wills Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 621 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 287 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Wills Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Wills Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wills Township, 2013 → 2023: 246 → 316. 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 Wills Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Wills Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wills Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 425 commuters (the 6% 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 far Wills Township’s workers travel
About 24% 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.
Most trips from Wills Township start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 450 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). 2.7% of Wills Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wills Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Wills Township comes 3,344th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,342 | Masonville Township MI | 1,625 | $79K | 9.4% | 6.4% | 6% | C |
| 3,343 | Brighton NY | 1,167 | $66K | 6.8% | 7.0% | 6% | C |
| 3,344 | Wills Township OH | 1,519 | $65K | 8.4% | 11.6% | 4% | C |
| 3,345 | Penn Township PA | 1,194 | $70K | 8.3% | 4.9% | 8% | C |
| 3,346 | Danby VT | 1,273 | $77K | 9.4% | 2.3% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Wills Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
The towns around Wills Township
The biggest share goes to Center Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wills Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills Township | – | C | C+ | 23 min | $64,563 |
| Center Township | 2% | C+ | C | 23 min | $76,029 |
| Richland Township | under 2% | C+ | D− | 29 min | $74,784 |
| Old Washington | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Millwood Township | under 2% | C | D | 30 min | $55,214 |
| Madison Township | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Oxford Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Old Washington and Oxford Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Madison Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wills 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 Wills Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wills Township?
$64,563 (±$23,374) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wills Township?
8.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wills Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wills Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cambridge (27%, 10 mi), Jackson Township (6%, 10 mi), Cambridge Township (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wills Township walkable?
Wills Township is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wills Township without a car?
1% 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 Wills Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wills 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.