Most of Enchanted Hills commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Enchanted Hills C−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Employers in Enchanted Hills report 20 jobs, against 606 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, against 11% across Indiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Enchanted Hills apart on work
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Enchanted Hills
On income, poverty and job access, Enchanted Hills is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Enchanted Hills’ grade up (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Enchanted Hills’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Enchanted Hills could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily commute in and out of Enchanted Hills
On a workday 605 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 450 people are in Enchanted Hills on a workday afternoon, 56% 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.
15% of working residents work in Goshen
Where Enchanted Hills clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
The kinds of work in Enchanted Hills
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enchanted Hills, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 20. 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 Enchanted Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes to work from Enchanted Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enchanted Hills workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 430 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.
How many miles Enchanted Hills commutes
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.
In Enchanted Hills, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Enchanted Hills is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Enchanted Hills near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 443 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 Enchanted Hills households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Enchanted Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Enchanted Hills is 2,103rd of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Long Beach IN | 1,158 | $122K | 3.8% | 2.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,101 | Wexford Township MI | 1,182 | $78K | 15.6% | 6.8% | 0% | C− |
| 2,102 | Tubac AZ | 1,294 | $73K | 13.4% | 0.0% | 8% | C− |
| 2,103 | Enchanted Hills IN | 1,039 | $65K | 24.6% | 0.0% | <1% | C− |
| 2,104 | Orangeville UT | 1,271 | $90K | 20.2% | 2.1% | 5% | C− |
| 2,105 | Buffalo WV | 1,185 | $65K | 19.9% | 8.1% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Enchanted Hills, 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 Enchanted Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Enchanted Hills?
$64,625 (±$13,708) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enchanted Hills?
24.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enchanted Hills?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Enchanted Hills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goshen (15%, 14 mi), Syracuse (9%, 4 mi), Elkhart (9%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Enchanted Hills walkable?
Enchanted Hills is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enchanted Hills 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 Enchanted Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enchanted Hills
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.