Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0There are 3.1 jobs in Ashley for every working resident, and 1,459 people commute in
Employers in Ashley report 1,485 jobs, against 474 working residents. The two grades for Ashley are C for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Measured by household income, Ashley is behind 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Ashley apart
Ashley has far more jobs than workers
Ashley has 1,485 jobs, 3.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,000 people are in town, 97% more than the 1,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Ashley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Ashley is Fort Wayne, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (78) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The biggest group of Ashley’s workers comes from Fort Wayne
157 of the people who work in Ashley live in Fort Wayne, 30 miles away, more than from any other town. 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; with 474 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Ashley’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ashley is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Ashley’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($49,091, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Ashley’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, Ashley could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Who commutes out of Ashley, and who commutes in
On a workday 448 residents head out to work and 26 work right here.
About 2,000 people are in Ashley on a workday afternoon, 97% more than live here.
3.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
How far Ashley goes 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 Ashley’s workforce comes from
Where Ashley clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
Goods jobs make up 52% of work in Ashley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ashley, 2013 → 2023: 1,717 → 1,485. 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 Ashley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Ashley: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ashley workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 541 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.
Few in Ashley walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ashley is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ashley 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 551 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). 2.8% of Ashley households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ashley’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Ashley is 1,767th of 3,133 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 1,765 | Round Lake WI | 1,148 | $62K | 5.8% | 3.3% | 8% | C |
| 1,766 | Morocco IN | 1,084 | $62K | 7.0% | 4.6% | 5% | C |
| 1,767 | Ashley IN | 1,037 | $49K | 11.1% | 2.5% | 5% | C |
| 1,768 | Lake Waccamaw NC | 1,239 | $73K | 9.3% | 4.0% | 7% | C |
| 1,769 | Cornville ME | 1,378 | $80K | 12.2% | 3.4% | 1% | 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 Ashley, 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 Ashley: questions
What is the median household income in Ashley?
$49,091 (±$17,518) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ashley?
11.1%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ashley?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ashley work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (16%, 30 mi), Angola (11%, 9 mi), Auburn (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ashley walkable?
Ashley is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ashley 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 Ashley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ashley
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.