Deputy has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Deputy has 13 jobs, against 35 working residents. Hardly any stay in Deputy for work; outside it, Madison is the main destination (23%, 14 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Indiana 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Deputy, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 35 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15 people are in Deputy on a workday afternoon, 59% 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 Deputy goes to work
Where Deputy clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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 Deputy, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deputy, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 13. 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 Deputy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Deputy
of Deputy workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 19 commuters (the 0% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Deputy
About 24% 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 Deputy: questions
What is the poverty rate in Deputy?
18.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Deputy work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (23%, 14 mi), Indianapolis (11%, 73 mi), Hanover (9%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Deputy 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 Deputy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deputy
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.