Cates has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
6 jobs are based in Cates, and 27 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Cates for work; outside it, Covington is the main destination (11%, 10 miles). Poverty touches 100.0% of residents, where Indiana as a whole has 12.3%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Cates, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 27 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 59 people are in Cates 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.
Where Cates goes to work
Where Cates clocks in
11% of workers
11% 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.
In Cates, 100% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cates, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 6. 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 Cates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cates
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.
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 Cates: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cates?
100.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cates work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Covington (11%, 10 mi), Crawfordsville (11%, 24 mi), Danville (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cates
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.