Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Cromwell commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any stay in Cromwell for work; outside it, Fort Wayne is the main destination (12%, 33 miles). There are 70 jobs in Cromwell, against 200 working residents. The average commute, 24 minutes each way, matches the Indiana norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cromwell and work: the main findings
Near or far: the trip to work from Cromwell
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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Cromwell
On a workday 199 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 69 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Cromwell on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 towns that employ Cromwell’s residents
Where Cromwell clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 47% of Cromwell’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cromwell, 2013 → 2023: 84 → 70. 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 Cromwell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Cromwell
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cromwell workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 234 commuters (the 5% 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.
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 Cromwell: questions
What is the median household income in Cromwell?
$48,698 (±$13,265) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cromwell?
27.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cromwell?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cromwell work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (12%, 33 mi), Goshen (10%, 16 mi), Ligonier (8%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cromwell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cromwell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cromwell
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.