Carroll County Courthouse · Photo: Publichall at en.wikipedia · Public domainDelphi’s household incomes are lower than in 74% of U.S. towns
9.6% of residents are in poverty, where Indiana as a whole has 12.3%. For jobs and income Delphi is better than 38% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in seven stay in Delphi for work; outside it, Lafayette is the main destination (25%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Delphi, in a few figures
Income, poverty and work: Delphi’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Delphi’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($59,972, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Delphi could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
1,169 jobs are based in Delphi.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delphi, 2013 → 2023: 1,189 → 1,169. 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 Delphi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Delphi
On a workday 1,268 residents head out to work, 174 work right here, and 995 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).
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 Delphi goes to work
Where Delphi clocks in
9% 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.
About 24 minutes to work from Delphi
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delphi workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,112 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.
Half of Delphi commutes less than 16 miles
About 25% 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.
Getting around Delphi: mostly by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,166 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). 9.8% of Delphi households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delphi’s commuters take a bus or train.
Delphi next to U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000: 2,806th of 4,618 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 190 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,804 | Richmond Township PA | 2,142 | $72K | 7.3% | 1.8% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,805 | Twain Harte CA | 2,372 | $89K | 9.7% | 0.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,806 | Delphi IN | 2,973 | $60K | 9.6% | 4.9% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,807 | Aurora IN | 3,533 | $47K | 18.5% | 1.6% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,808 | Brockway PA | 2,213 | $57K | 11.7% | 2.8% | 15% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Delphi, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Delphi: questions
What is the median household income in Delphi?
$59,972 (±$19,667) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delphi?
9.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delphi?
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 Delphi work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (25%, 16 mi), Deer Creek Township (9%, 2 mi), Indianapolis (7%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delphi walkable?
Delphi is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delphi without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delphi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delphi
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.