Photo: Chris Light at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Grant Township have lower incomes than those in 74% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Grant Township itself; outside it, Kentland draws the most (10%, 6 miles). Poverty touches 12.2% of residents, where Indiana as a whole has 12.3%. For jobs and income Grant Township is better than 17% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Grant Township
Income, poverty and work: Grant Township’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Grant Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Grant Township’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, Grant Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
In Grant Township, 76% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
314 jobs are based in Grant Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grant Township, 2014 → 2024: 352 → 314. 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.
Grant Township by day and by night
On a workday 508 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 290 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Grant Township on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
Where people from Grant Township work
Where Grant Township clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Grant Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 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 445 commuters (the 8% 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 distance from Grant Township to work
About 29% 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 Grant Township, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 482 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). 4.6% 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.
Grant Township places 2,686th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
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| 69 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 4% | A+ |
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| 108 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | <1% | A |
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| 138 | Greenville IN | 1,452 | $135K | 5.6% | 4.1% | 2% | A |
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| 2,684 | Sundown TX | 1,317 | $59K | 14.6% | 14.2% | 6% | C− |
| 2,685 | Kinmundy Township IL | 1,084 | $58K | 12.6% | 6.9% | 3% | C− |
| 2,686 | Grant Township IN | 1,094 | $60K | 12.2% | 3.4% | 5% | C− |
| 2,687 | Chesterville ME | 1,378 | $62K | 12.0% | 2.9% | 2% | C− |
| 2,688 | Center Township PA | 1,065 | $68K | 12.1% | 3.5% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Grant Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Grant Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Iroquois Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Grant Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Township | – | C− | C− | 22 min | $59,946 |
| Iroquois Township | 3% | C− | C− | 28 min | $61,630 |
| Carpenter Township | under 2% | B | C | 21 min | $79,500 |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | D | B+ | 24 min | $66,094 |
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?
$59,946 (±$7,870) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grant Township?
12.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grant Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grant Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kentland (10%, 6 mi), Lafayette (9%, 36 mi), Rensselaer (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Grant Township walkable?
Grant Township is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grant Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% 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.