Photo: SouthernOculus · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Carr Township works elsewhere
Carr Township has 280 jobs; 2,312 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Carr Township A−; getting around on foot earns it D. Household incomes here are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Carr Township, in brief
Carr Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Carr Township’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Carr Township could be anywhere from B to A+.
Who commutes out of Carr Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,276 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 244 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Carr Township on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
14% of working residents work in New Albany
Where Carr Township clocks in
14% 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.
The kinds of work in Carr Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carr Township, 2013 → 2023: 216 → 280. 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.
How long Carr Township spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 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 2,529 commuters (the 17% 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 Carr Township goes to work
About 21% 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 of Carr Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carr Township is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns, #552 of 593 in Indiana. 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 3,047 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). 0.0% of Carr Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Carr Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
707th of 3,582: where Carr Township ranks among U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 93 | Worth Township IN | 6,688 | $123K | 4.1% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Hidden Valley IN | 5,706 | $121K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 705 | Lake Shore WA | 6,978 | $131K | 3.0% | 6.3% | 1% | A− |
| 706 | Ellettsville IN | 6,840 | $90K | 5.9% | 1.3% | 6% | A− |
| 707 | Carr Township IN | 5,255 | $107K | 2.3% | 5.6% | 2% | A− |
| 708 | Holland Township NJ | 5,239 | $137K | 3.5% | 4.5% | 6% | A− |
| 709 | Lawrence Township OH | 5,913 | $81K | 5.5% | 2.2% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,582 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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
The biggest share goes to Sellersburg (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carr Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr Township | – | A− | D | 26 min | $107,295 |
| Union Township | under 2% | A | D | 30 min | $111,107 |
| Wood Township | 3% | A | C+ | 35 min | $86,528 |
| Silver Creek Township | under 2% | A− | B− | 20 min | $75,732 |
| Sellersburg | 4% | B | C+ | 20 min | $72,179 |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 28 min | $90,733 |
| Lafayette Township | under 2% | A | D | 27 min | $118,380 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$107,295 (±$15,969) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carr Township?
2.3%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carr Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carr Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Albany (14%, 9 mi), Jeffersonville (10%, 11 mi), Louisville (7%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carr Township walkable?
Carr Township is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carr Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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.