How Grant Township works: jobs, income and commuting
About one in ten stay in Grant Township for work; outside it, Fort Wayne is the main destination (18%, 24 miles). The two grades for Grant Township are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Commuters spend 27 minutes getting to work on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Grant Township at work: what stands out
Grant Township trades workers with the towns around it
Grant Township has about as many jobs (1,512) as working residents (1,496), but they are mostly different people: 1,366 residents leave for work each day while 1,382 people come in. Only 9% of the jobs in Grant Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Grant Township makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Grant Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Grant Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 41%. The jobs ↓
Grant Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Grant Township is Fort Wayne, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (269) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
Inside Grant Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Grant Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #265 of 593 in Indiana. Job access by car holds Grant Township’s grade up (ahead of 62% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Grant Township could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How a workday changes Grant Township
On a workday 1,366 residents head out to work, 130 work right here, and 1,382 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
A place that makes things: 56% of Grant Township’s jobs are in goods
1,512 jobs are based in Grant Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grant Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,358 → 1,512. 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 Grant Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Grant Township to work
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.
Where the trip to work from Grant Township ends
Where Grant Township clocks in
16% 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.
From Grant Township, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grant Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,494 commuters (the 6% 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.
In Grant Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grant Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #318 of 593 in Indiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% 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 1,592 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). 1.8% of Grant Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grant Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Grant Township ranks: 1,873rd of 4,698 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 73 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 88 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 8% | A+ |
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| 126 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,871 | Plainview TN | 2,263 | $64K | 10.7% | 2.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,872 | Grottoes VA | 3,099 | $100K | 9.0% | 4.8% | 3% | B |
| 1,873 | Grant Township IN | 3,156 | $80K | 8.4% | 4.7% | 9% | B |
| 1,874 | East Brookfield MA | 2,231 | $81K | 7.1% | 5.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,875 | Sheffield MA | 3,314 | $92K | 6.4% | 3.5% | 28% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Grant Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Grant Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Grant Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Township | – | B | C+ | 27 min | $80,000 |
| Union Township | under 3% | B− | B− | 18 min | $75,568 |
| Richland Township | under 3% | A− | C | 31 min | $84,123 |
| Smithfield Township | under 3% | B− | D− | 20 min | $63,571 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Grant Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Grant Township: questions
What is the median household income in Grant Township?
$80,000 (±$5,395) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grant Township?
8.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grant Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grant Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (18%, 24 mi), Auburn (16%, 4 mi), Waterloo (6%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Grant Township walkable?
Grant Township is more walkable than 42% 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 Grant Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grant Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grant Township
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.