Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJobs and earnings in Bogard Township, and the trip to work
Only 8% work in Bogard Township; the top destination outside it is Van Buren Township (23%, 6 miles). Bogard Township grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. The poverty rate is 1.4%, next to 12.3% for Indiana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Bogard Township, in a few figures
Bogard Township makes and builds things
86% of the jobs based in Bogard Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bogard Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 55%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Bogard Township works one town over
36% of working residents work in a town that borders Bogard Township: Van Buren Township (23%) and Barr Township (13%). Next door ↓
Most Bogard Township residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 631 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Bogard Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Bogard Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bogard Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Bogard Township’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, Bogard Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Goods, not services: 86% of the jobs in Bogard Township
445 jobs are based in Bogard Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bogard Township, 2013 → 2023: 127 → 445. 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 Bogard Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Bogard Township commutes
About 20% 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.
A workday in Bogard Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 582 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 396 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Bogard Township on a workday afternoon, 12% 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 the trip to work from Bogard Township ends
Where Bogard Township clocks in
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 Bogard Township: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bogard Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 573 commuters (the 4% 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.
The commute in Bogard Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bogard Township is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 26.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 595 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). 55.3% of Bogard Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bogard Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Bogard Township ranks: 1,663rd of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | 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+ |
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| 7 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 111 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 122 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
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| 1,661 | Comfort TX | 1,565 | $81K | 8.5% | 11.4% | 4% | B |
| 1,662 | Woodsboro MD | 1,136 | $117K | 16.6% | 2.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,663 | Bogard Township IN | 1,588 | $77K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 8% | B |
| 1,664 | Genoa NY | 1,782 | $93K | 6.6% | 1.2% | 10% | B |
| 1,665 | Berlin NY | 1,695 | $80K | 6.6% | 2.2% | 14% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Bogard Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Bogard Township and its neighbors: 36% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bogard Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bogard Township | – | B | B− | 21 min | $76,696 |
| Steele Township | under 3% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Elmore Township | under 3% | C | B | 21 min | $75,833 |
| Van Buren Township | 23% | B | B− | 32 min | $90,985 |
| Barr Township | 13% | B+ | B | 22 min | $92,717 |
Same-state neighbors only. Steele Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Van Buren Township. Darker towns draw more of Bogard Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Bogard Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bogard Township?
$76,696 (±$13,768) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bogard Township?
1.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bogard Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bogard Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Van Buren Township (23%, 6 mi), Barr Township (13%, 8 mi), Washington (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bogard Township walkable?
Bogard Township is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 27% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bogard Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 55% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bogard Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bogard Township
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.