Fountain Park Chautauqua · Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 1.8 jobs in Carpenter Township for every working resident, and 1,551 people commute in
About one in seven work in Carpenter Township; the top destination outside it is Rensselaer (17%, 12 miles). Employers in Carpenter Township report 1,678 jobs, and 908 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Carpenter Township B; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Carpenter Township: the gist
Carpenter Township is where the jobs are
Carpenter Township has 1,678 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
53% of the jobs in Carpenter Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Carpenter Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Carpenter Township fell from 2,278 in 2013 to 1,678 in 2023, −26%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 908 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Carpenter Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Carpenter Township is better than 57% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Carpenter Township’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Carpenter Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
The daily commute in and out of Carpenter Township
On a workday 781 residents head out to work and 127 work right here.
About 2,800 people are in Carpenter Township on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
1.8 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.
A place that makes things: 32% of Carpenter Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carpenter Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,278 → 1,678. 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 Carpenter Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Carpenter Township’s workforce comes from
Where Carpenter Township clocks in
17% of workers
10% 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.
About 21 minutes each way for Carpenter Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carpenter Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,071 commuters (the 7% 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.
How far Carpenter Township goes to work
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Carpenter Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carpenter Township is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,147 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). 1.4% of Carpenter Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Carpenter Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Carpenter Township is 1,830th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
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| 7 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,828 | Crescent WI | 1,986 | $84K | 2.3% | 4.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,829 | Burnt Store Marina FL | 2,157 | $93K | 8.8% | 9.4% | 8% | B |
| 1,830 | Carpenter Township IN | 1,998 | $80K | 9.8% | 2.4% | 14% | B |
| 1,831 | Leland Township MI | 2,191 | $93K | 4.8% | 3.0% | 18% | B |
| 1,832 | Monroe Township OH | 2,001 | $73K | 5.7% | 0.7% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Carpenter Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
The towns around Carpenter Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carpenter Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carpenter Township | – | B | C | 21 min | $79,500 |
| Jordan Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Princeton Township | under 2% | C− | B− | 19 min | $70,833 |
| Grant Township | under 2% | C− | C− | 22 min | $59,946 |
| Gilboa Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jordan Township and Gilboa Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Carpenter 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 Carpenter Township: questions
What is the median household income in Carpenter Township?
$79,500 (±$6,281) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carpenter Township?
9.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carpenter Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carpenter Township work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rensselaer (17%, 12 mi), Lafayette (10%, 31 mi), Remington (10%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carpenter Township walkable?
Carpenter Township is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carpenter Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carpenter Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carpenter 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.