Photo: Public domain · Public domainWith 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Andrews works elsewhere
Andrews has 69 jobs; 495 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Andrews are C for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Andrews is behind 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Andrews apart on work
Andrews and Huntington trade workers both ways
Huntington is the top workplace for Andrews residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Andrews come from (30% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Andrews is a place people come home to
There are 69 jobs based in Andrews, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Andrews has about 640 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 495 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Andrews earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Andrews is better than 34% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Andrews’ grade up (7.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($49,500, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Andrews’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, Andrews could be anywhere from C− to B.
27% of working residents work in Huntington
Where Andrews clocks in
27% 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 works in Andrews, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 486 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 60 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Andrews on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Andrews
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Andrews, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 69. 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 Andrews’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Andrews: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Andrews workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 450 commuters (the 3% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Andrews
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 Andrews gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Andrews is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Andrews 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 462 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). 0.4% of Andrews households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Andrews’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,596th of 3,133: where Andrews ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Long Beach IN | 1,158 | $122K | 3.8% | 2.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,594 | Fort Clark Springs TX | 1,048 | $71K | 6.6% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 1,595 | Brightwood VA | 1,325 | $71K | 10.0% | 5.6% | <1% | C |
| 1,596 | Andrews IN | 1,062 | $50K | 7.8% | 6.7% | 2% | C |
| 1,597 | Matteson Township MI | 1,195 | $70K | 9.8% | 4.3% | 1% | C |
| 1,598 | Independence NY | 1,076 | $69K | 6.3% | 2.7% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Andrews, 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 Andrews: questions
What is the median household income in Andrews?
$49,500 (±$11,548) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Andrews?
7.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Andrews?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Andrews work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Huntington (27%, 5 mi), Fort Wayne (16%, 29 mi), Wabash (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Andrews walkable?
Andrews is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Andrews 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 Andrews, from the people who make the trip.
More of Andrews
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.