Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0About half of Grabill’s working residents commute to Fort Wayne
Working residents average 21 minutes each way; Indiana averages 24, the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Grabill B+; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 5% work in Grabill itself; outside it, Fort Wayne draws the most (45%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Grabill
Nearly half of Grabill works in Fort Wayne
214 working residents, 45%, have their main job in Fort Wayne, 12 miles away. That’s 9 times as many as work in Grabill itself. The commute map ↓
Grabill makes and builds things
66% of the jobs based in Grabill are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Grabill residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Grabill
65% of Grabill residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 43% of the jobs based in Grabill pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 95% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 472 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Grabill
On income, poverty and job access, Grabill is better than 66% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Grabill’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($66,563, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Grabill’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, Grabill could be anywhere from C to A.
The towns that employ Grabill’s residents
Where Grabill clocks in
4% 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.
Goods jobs make up 66% of work in Grabill
702 jobs are based in Grabill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grabill, 2013 → 2023: 862 → 702. 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 Grabill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Grabill by day
On a workday 450 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 680 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Grabill on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How long Grabill spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grabill workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 527 commuters (the 16% 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 far it is to work from Grabill
About 16% 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.
Getting around Grabill: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grabill is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 627 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.4% of Grabill households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grabill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Grabill next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 871st of 4,312 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 869 | Alto CA | 1,024 | $129K | 26.0% | 3.9% | <1% | B+ |
| 870 | Richland Township IN | 1,074 | $87K | 3.1% | 2.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 871 | Grabill IN | 1,168 | $67K | 5.6% | 2.5% | 5% | B+ |
| 872 | Alhambra Township IL | 1,583 | $94K | 9.1% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 873 | Sandia Knolls NM | 1,445 | $92K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Grabill, 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 Grabill: questions
What is the median household income in Grabill?
$66,563 (±$31,023) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grabill?
5.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grabill?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grabill work?
5% work in town.
Is Grabill walkable?
Grabill is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grabill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grabill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grabill
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.