Cass Township has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Cass Township report 364 jobs for 747 working residents. The two grades for Cass Township are B for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 7% stay in Cass Township for work; outside it, Valparaiso is the main destination (16%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Cass Township, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cass Township
On income, poverty and job access, Cass Township is better than 56% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cass Township’s grade up (5.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($62,875, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Cass Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cass Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
How long Cass Township spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cass Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 671 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.
Who leaves Cass Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 698 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 315 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Cass Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Where the trip to work from Cass Township ends
Where Cass Township clocks in
16% of workers
7% of workers
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.
Cass Township works in goods: 31% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cass Township, 2013 → 2023: 354 → 364. 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 Cass Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Cass Township, by distance
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.
Few in Cass Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cass Township is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 724 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). 3.5% of Cass Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Cass Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cass Township places 1,951st of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 171 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,949 | Franklin CT | 1,915 | $105K | 8.7% | 6.8% | 7% | B |
| 1,950 | Raccoon Township IL | 1,481 | $78K | 4.3% | 1.8% | <1% | B |
| 1,951 | Cass Township IN | 1,757 | $63K | 5.0% | 0.8% | 7% | B |
| 1,952 | New Garden Township IN | 1,930 | $74K | 8.4% | 2.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,953 | Climax Township MI | 2,381 | $76K | 8.5% | 11.7% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Cass Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Cass Township
The biggest share goes to Clinton Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cass Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass Township | – | B | C− | 29 min | $62,875 |
| Morgan Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 27 min | $112,951 |
| Clinton Township | 2% | B | B | 32 min | $105,714 |
| Dewey Township | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Pleasant Township | under 2% | A− | D | 31 min | $87,389 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dewey Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cass 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 Cass Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cass Township?
$62,875 (±$20,785) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cass Township?
5.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cass Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cass Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valparaiso (16%, 11 mi), La Porte (7%, 17 mi), Wanatah (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cass Township walkable?
Cass Township is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cass Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cass Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cass 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.