Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Flora works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Flora is behind 86% of U.S. towns. Employers in Flora report 598 jobs; 1,059 of its residents have a job. Flora grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Flora: the gist
Why Flora gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Flora is better than 24% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Flora’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($51,429, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Flora could be anywhere from D to B.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Flora
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flora workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,028 commuters (the 1% 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 people are in Flora by day
On a workday 937 residents head out to work, 122 work right here, and 476 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Flora on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
23% of working residents work in Lafayette
Where Flora clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
What Flora’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flora, 2013 → 2023: 607 → 598. 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 Flora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Flora to work
About 19% 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.
Driving is how Flora gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Flora is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.6% of 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 1,034 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). 7.7% of Flora households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Flora’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Flora ranks: 3,578th of 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 100 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 156 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,576 | Broad Creek NC | 1,836 | $58K | 7.8% | 2.1% | 3% | C− |
| 3,577 | South Rosemary NC | 2,475 | $47K | 19.8% | 2.2% | 1% | C− |
| 3,578 | Flora IN | 2,106 | $51K | 13.8% | 4.7% | 12% | C− |
| 3,579 | Pine Lawn MO | 2,682 | $25K | 42.6% | 11.3% | 1% | C− |
| 3,580 | Nanticoke NY | 1,564 | $69K | 14.6% | 6.8% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Flora, 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 Flora: questions
What is the median household income in Flora?
$51,429 (±$12,286) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flora?
13.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flora?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flora work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (23%, 20 mi), Deer Creek Township (7%, 6 mi), Indianapolis (6%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Flora walkable?
Flora is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Flora without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flora
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.