Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Farmland has lower household incomes than 95% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Farmland is better than 8% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+). 22.4% of residents are in poverty; Indiana has 12.3%. 2% of workers have no commute at all, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Farmland
Farmland and Muncie trade workers both ways
Muncie is the top workplace for Farmland residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Farmland come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Farmland is a place people come home to
There are 143 jobs based in Farmland, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Farmland has about 920 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Farmland workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 491 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Farmland’s grade
Job access by car holds Farmland’s grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($41,206, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Farmland’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, Farmland could be anywhere from D to C−.
20% of working residents work in Muncie
Where Farmland clocks in
20% of workers
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.
Farmland quiets down on a workday
On a workday 479 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 131 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Farmland on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.29 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Getting to work from Farmland takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Farmland workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 543 commuters (the 2% 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.
Most jobs in Farmland are in services
143 jobs are based in Farmland.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Farmland, 2014 → 2024: 104 → 143. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Farmland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Farmland
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Farmland, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 555 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). 3.9% of Farmland households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Farmland’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Farmland ranks: 4,141st of 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,139 | Hammond NY | 1,245 | $73K | 28.4% | 6.0% | 14% | D |
| 4,140 | Brokenstraw Township PA | 1,654 | $50K | 14.7% | 4.2% | 16% | D |
| 4,141 | Farmland IN | 1,265 | $41K | 22.4% | 4.2% | 2% | D |
| 4,142 | Montrose PA | 1,275 | $53K | 24.6% | 5.5% | 10% | D |
| 4,143 | Pine River Township MN | 1,240 | $58K | 15.5% | 7.3% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Farmland, 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 2024, 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 Farmland: questions
What is the median household income in Farmland?
$41,206 (±$1,962) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Farmland?
22.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Farmland?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Farmland work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muncie (20%, 14 mi), Winchester (8%, 8 mi), Indianapolis (7%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Farmland walkable?
Farmland is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Farmland without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Farmland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Farmland
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.