Photo: Dlgagen · CC BY-SA 4.0Albion draws 1,987 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Albion is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B). Employers in Albion report 2,150 jobs, against 994 working residents. About one in seven stay in Albion for work; outside it, Fort Wayne is the main destination (13%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Albion: the gist
Albion is where the jobs are
Albion has 2,150 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,400 people are in town, 51% more than the 2,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Albion makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Albion are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Albion residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 43%. The jobs ↓
Albion’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Albion is Fort Wayne, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (134) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 994 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Albion’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Albion’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($70,565, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Albion could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The daily commute in and out of Albion
On a workday 831 residents head out to work and 163 work right here.
About 3,400 people are in Albion on a workday afternoon, 51% more 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.
Albion works in goods: 55% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Albion, 2013 → 2023: 2,381 → 2,150. 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 Albion’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Albion to work
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.
Where the people who work in Albion live
Where Albion clocks in
8% of workers
3% 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.
From Albion, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Albion workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,178 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
For most of Albion, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,246 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). 7.7% of Albion households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Albion’s commuters take a bus or train.
Albion next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100: 1,610th of 5,328 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,608 | Blue Hill Township MN | 2,625 | $108K | 6.7% | 3.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,609 | Patterson Township PA | 3,038 | $67K | 6.6% | 4.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,610 | Albion IN | 2,261 | $71K | 8.6% | 2.6% | 16% | B |
| 1,611 | Goodrich MI | 2,003 | $110K | 7.0% | 7.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,612 | Carlton OR | 2,291 | $98K | 5.9% | 5.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Albion, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Albion: questions
What is the median household income in Albion?
$70,565 (±$5,020) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Albion?
8.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Albion?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Albion work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (13%, 26 mi), Kendallville (8%, 9 mi), Elkhart (3%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Albion walkable?
Albion is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Albion without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Albion, from the people who make the trip.
More of Albion
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.