Photo: Public domain · Public domainA job hub: Angola has 2.1 jobs per working resident, and 6,810 people come in to work
About one in three work in Angola itself; outside it, Fort Wayne draws the most (9%, 39 miles). 8,262 jobs are based in Angola for 3,951 working residents. Angola grades C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Angola at work: what stands out
Angola is where the jobs are
Angola has 8,262 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 14,000 people are in town, 46% more than the 9,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Angola’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Angola is Fort Wayne, 39 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (348) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Angola are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 24 across Indiana. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Indiana worker. Time on the road ↓
Angola draws workers from far and wide
The 8,262 jobs in Angola are filled from a wide area. Angola’s own residents hold 18% and the ten next-biggest home towns 25%; the other 57% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
The figures behind Angola’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Angola is better than 23% of U.S. towns, #511 of 593 in Indiana. Job access by car holds Angola’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Angola could be anywhere from D to B−.
The daily commute in and out of Angola
On a workday 2,499 residents head out to work and 1,452 work right here.
About 14,000 people are in Angola on a workday afternoon, 46% 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.
How far Angola’s workers travel
About 19% 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.
How long Angola spends getting to work: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angola workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,164 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.
Where the people who work in Angola live
Where Angola clocks in
5% of workers
5% 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 Angola
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Angola, 2013 → 2023: 7,412 → 8,262. 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 Angola’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Angola
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Angola is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns, #43 of 593 in Indiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,379 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). 8.0% of Angola households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Angola’s commuters take a bus or train.
Angola places 2,303rd of 2,778 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Worth Township IN | 6,688 | $123K | 4.1% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 151 | Miller Township IN | 10,161 | $113K | 3.0% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 173 | Lakes of the Four Seasons IN | 7,402 | $122K | 3.1% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,301 | Wilmer TX | 6,768 | $60K | 32.7% | 14.4% | 2% | C− |
| 2,302 | Ottawa Township IL | 11,179 | $70K | 16.6% | 8.4% | 18% | C− |
| 2,303 | Angola IN | 9,366 | $65K | 17.9% | 6.3% | 37% | C− |
| 2,304 | Creston IA | 7,335 | $53K | 15.8% | 3.6% | 41% | C− |
| 2,305 | Sturgis MI | 10,900 | $63K | 13.4% | 8.4% | 26% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,778 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Angola, 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 Angola: questions
What is the median household income in Angola?
$64,540 (±$10,600) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angola?
17.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angola?
16 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Angola work?
37% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (9%, 39 mi), Fremont (5%, 7 mi), Elkhart (5%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Angola walkable?
Angola is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Angola without a car?
1% 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 Angola, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angola
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.