Carr High School · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Carr Township works elsewhere
Only 2% work in Carr Township itself; outside it, Seymour draws the most (22%, 20 miles). Employers in Carr Township report 171 jobs, and 529 of its residents work somewhere. Carr Township grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Carr Township, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Carr Township
On income, poverty and job access, Carr Township is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Carr Township’s grade up (6.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Carr 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, Carr Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Carr Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carr Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 525 commuters (the 10% 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.
In and out of Carr Township on a workday
On a workday 517 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 159 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Carr Township on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The places Carr Township commutes to
Where Carr Township clocks in
22% of workers
11% 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.
Goods, not services: 40% of the jobs in Carr Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carr Township, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 171. 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 Carr Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Carr Township
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.
Most trips from Carr Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carr Township is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Carr 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 583 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). 4.2% of Carr Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Carr Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,541st of 5,400: where Carr Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
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| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 95 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 103 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
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| 2,539 | Quemahoning Township PA | 1,795 | $59K | 6.6% | 2.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,540 | Milford PA | 1,142 | $75K | 11.3% | 2.4% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,541 | Carr Township IN | 1,358 | $68K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,542 | Kenwood Estates FL | 1,263 | $66K | 33.5% | 2.3% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,543 | Taft Southwest TX | 1,635 | $56K | 10.6% | 11.4% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Carr Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Carr Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carr Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr Township | – | C+ | C− | 31 min | $68,438 |
| Driftwood Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Brown Township | under 2% | D− | C+ | 29 min | $41,132 |
| Owen Township | under 2% | C | C− | 30 min | $75,481 |
| Brownstown Township | 2% | B | C− | 20 min | $72,256 |
Same-state neighbors only. Driftwood Township: not graded. Jefferson Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Brownstown Township. Darker towns draw more of Carr 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 Carr Township: questions
What is the median household income in Carr Township?
$68,438 (±$13,956) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carr Township?
6.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carr Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carr Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seymour (22%, 20 mi), Brownstown (11%, 10 mi), Columbus (10%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carr Township walkable?
Carr Township is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carr Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carr Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carr 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.