Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Argos has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Argos has 414 jobs, and 760 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Argos C−; getting around on foot earns it A−. Home is the office for 2% of workers, against 11% across Indiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Argos: the gist
Income, poverty and work: Argos’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Argos is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Argos’ grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (8.6%) is left out: Argos’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, Argos could be anywhere from D to C+.
41% of the jobs in Argos make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Argos, 2013 → 2023: 411 → 414. 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 Argos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Argos
On a workday 707 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 361 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Argos on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
14% of working residents work in Plymouth
Where Argos clocks in
7% 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 trip to work from Argos: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Argos workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 748 commuters (the 2% 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.
Half of Argos commutes less than 19 miles
About 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Argos
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Argos is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 8.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 767 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). 5.1% of Argos households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Argos’ commuters take a bus or train.
Argos places 4,392nd of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 171 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,390 | Labadieville LA | 1,408 | $48K | 13.8% | 13.5% | 1% | C− |
| 4,391 | Mount Zion GA | 2,057 | $54K | 16.1% | 6.3% | <1% | C− |
| 4,392 | Argos IN | 1,761 | $62K | 19.4% | 8.6% | 7% | C− |
| 4,393 | Bedford IA | 1,474 | $61K | 10.0% | 7.0% | 18% | C− |
| 4,394 | Capac MI | 1,943 | $60K | 12.5% | 9.0% | 6% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Argos, 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 Argos: questions
What is the median household income in Argos?
$61,667 (±$6,961) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Argos?
19.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Argos?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Argos work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plymouth (14%, 8 mi), Warsaw (7%, 21 mi), South Bend (5%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Argos walkable?
Argos is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Argos without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Argos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Argos
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.