Household incomes in Arcadia trail those of 63% of U.S. towns
Only 4% work in Arcadia itself; outside it, Indianapolis draws the most (21%, 28 miles). The poverty rate is 9.5% (Indiana 12.3%). Arcadia grades B− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Arcadia stands out on work
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Arcadia
On income, poverty and job access, Arcadia is better than 54% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Arcadia’s grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($66,901, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Arcadia’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, Arcadia could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Arcadia
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 many people are in Arcadia by day
On a workday 719 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 505 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Arcadia on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Arcadia goes to work
Where Arcadia clocks in
21% of workers
9% 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.
Most jobs in Arcadia are in services
532 jobs are based in Arcadia.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arcadia, 2013 → 2023: 250 → 532. 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 Arcadia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Arcadia’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arcadia workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 643 commuters (the 15% 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.
Getting around Arcadia: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arcadia is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 754 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). 3.4% of Arcadia households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arcadia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Arcadia is 1,976th among 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,974 | Reedsville WI | 1,191 | $73K | 9.1% | 1.9% | 5% | B− |
| 1,975 | Stockbridge NY | 1,961 | $76K | 9.3% | 2.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,976 | Arcadia IN | 1,458 | $67K | 9.5% | 3.1% | 4% | B− |
| 1,977 | Republican Township IN | 1,632 | $97K | 8.4% | 5.5% | <1% | B− |
| 1,978 | Balsam Lake WI | 1,430 | $89K | 6.9% | 2.2% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Arcadia, 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 Arcadia: questions
What is the median household income in Arcadia?
$66,901 (±$5,467) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arcadia?
9.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arcadia?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arcadia work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Indianapolis (21%, 28 mi), Noblesville (14%, 9 mi), Carmel (9%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arcadia walkable?
Arcadia is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arcadia 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 Arcadia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arcadia
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.