Lancaster Covered Bridge · Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Clay Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Clay Township report 89 jobs, and 593 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Clay Township are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Clay Township
Clay Township is a place people come home to
There are 89 jobs based in Clay Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Clay Township has about 770 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
30% of Clay Township works in Lafayette
175 working residents, 30%, have their main job in Lafayette, 12 miles away. That’s far more as work in Clay Township itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Clay Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Indiana. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Indiana worker. Time on the road ↓
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 593 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Clay Township
On income, poverty and job access, Clay Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Clay Township’s grade.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Clay 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, Clay Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Clay Township
On a workday 592 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Clay Township on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
30% of working residents work in Lafayette
Where Clay Township clocks in
8% 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.
Time on the road from Clay Township: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clay Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 442 commuters (the 3% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 47% of the jobs in Clay Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clay Township, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 89. 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 Clay Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Clay Township, by distance
About 16% 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 Clay Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clay Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 454 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). 0.0% of Clay Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clay Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Clay Township is 2,508th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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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| 85 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 93 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,506 | Liberty Township IN | 1,442 | $72K | 13.0% | 6.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,507 | Kirklin Township IN | 1,246 | $58K | 13.0% | 1.6% | 6% | C |
| 2,508 | Clay Township IN | 1,273 | $71K | 13.4% | 4.0% | <1% | C |
| 2,509 | Herzog Township KS | 1,644 | $78K | 10.6% | 3.9% | 10% | C |
| 2,510 | Kingsville Township OH | 1,626 | $79K | 14.6% | 1.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Clay Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Clay Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Ross Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Clay Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Township | – | C | C− | 19 min | $71,042 |
| Ross Township | 2% | B | C | 22 min | $85,857 |
| Madison Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Democrat Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Perry Township | under 2% | A− | C | 18 min | $86,778 |
Same-state neighbors only. Madison Township and Democrat Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Clay 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 Clay Township: questions
What is the median household income in Clay Township?
$71,042 (±$7,530) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clay Township?
13.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clay Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clay Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (30%, 12 mi), Deer Creek Township (8%, 9 mi), West Lafayette (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clay Township walkable?
Clay Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clay Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clay Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clay 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.