Clinton D. Gilson Barn · Photo: Chris Light at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Boone Township works elsewhere
Boone Township grades B for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Employers in Boone Township report 809 jobs, against 2,545 working residents. Only 5% work in Boone Township itself; outside it, Valparaiso draws the most (10%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Boone Township in brief
Inside Boone Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Boone Township is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #245 of 593 in Indiana. The poverty rate holds Boone Township’s grade up (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boone Township could be anywhere from C to A.
A commute of about 36 minutes in Boone Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boone Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,319 commuters (the 8% 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 daily commute in and out of Boone Township
On a workday 2,414 residents head out to work, 131 work right here, and 678 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Boone Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Commuting out of Boone Township: the destinations
Where Boone Township clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
What Boone Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boone Township, 2013 → 2023: 762 → 809. 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 Boone Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Boone Township goes to work
About 15% 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.
Few in Boone Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boone Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns, #461 of 593 in Indiana. Both inputs place Boone Township 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 2,515 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.5% of Boone Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boone Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Boone Township is 1,538th of 3,370 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Worth Township IN | 6,688 | $123K | 4.1% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Hidden Valley IN | 5,706 | $121K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | New Whiteland IN | 5,937 | $90K | 3.3% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,536 | Littlestown PA | 4,895 | $71K | 12.7% | 0.3% | 7% | B |
| 1,537 | Columbus WI | 5,400 | $75K | 6.9% | 4.9% | 16% | B |
| 1,538 | Boone Township IN | 6,149 | $75K | 5.9% | 4.9% | 5% | B |
| 1,539 | Almont Township MI | 7,103 | $92K | 6.2% | 6.3% | 9% | B |
| 1,540 | Hampton Township NJ | 4,989 | $110K | 6.2% | 6.8% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | 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 Boone Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Boone Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boone Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boone Township | – | B | C− | 36 min | $74,631 |
| Eagle Creek Township | under 4% | A− | B− | 31 min | $99,663 |
| Pleasant Township | under 4% | A− | D | 31 min | $87,389 |
| Porter Township | under 4% | A | D− | 40 min | $123,075 |
| Winfield Township | under 4% | A | C | 35 min | $133,448 |
| Keener Township | under 4% | B− | C+ | 31 min | $74,292 |
| Morgan Township | under 4% | A− | C− | 27 min | $112,951 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Boone 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 Boone Township: questions
What is the median household income in Boone Township?
$74,631 (±$12,177) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boone Township?
5.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boone Township?
36 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boone Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valparaiso (10%, 13 mi), Crown Point (7%, 12 mi), Merrillville (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boone Township walkable?
Boone Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boone Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boone Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boone 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.