Fraser & Isham Law Office · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Fowler commutes out: there are 0.6 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns. Employers in Fowler report 610 jobs; 1,106 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Fowler are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Fowler apart on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Fowler
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fowler is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Fowler’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($53,576, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fowler could be anywhere from D to B−.
How many miles Fowler commutes
About 27% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Fowler
On a workday 934 residents head out to work, 172 work right here, and 438 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Fowler on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
17% of working residents work in Lafayette
Where Fowler clocks in
11% 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.
The kinds of work in Fowler
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fowler, 2013 → 2023: 614 → 610. 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 Fowler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Fowler: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fowler workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 864 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.
The commute in Fowler is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fowler is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. 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 905 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). 5.9% of Fowler households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fowler’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,743rd of 4,995: where Fowler ranks among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,741 | Flushing Township OH | 1,884 | $55K | 31.5% | 2.5% | 2% | C− |
| 3,742 | Whidbey Island Station WA | 2,027 | $46K | 7.4% | 6.9% | 0% | C− |
| 3,743 | Fowler IN | 2,386 | $54K | 14.3% | 4.4% | 16% | C− |
| 3,744 | Roseau MN | 2,685 | $60K | 17.8% | 3.8% | 52% | C− |
| 3,745 | Hanley Hills MO | 1,963 | $53K | 33.9% | 10.8% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | 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 Fowler, 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 Fowler: questions
What is the median household income in Fowler?
$53,576 (±$5,390) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fowler?
14.3%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fowler?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fowler work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (17%, 28 mi), West Lafayette (11%, 24 mi), Indianapolis (7%, 85 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fowler walkable?
Fowler is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 10.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fowler without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fowler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fowler
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.