Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Hamlet has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Home is the office for 2% of workers, against 11% across Indiana. There are 67 jobs in Hamlet, and 303 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Hamlet itself; outside it, Knox draws the most (11%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Hamlet apart on work
Hamlet is a place people come home to
There are 67 jobs based in Hamlet, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hamlet has about 530 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Hamlet workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 303 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Hamlet by day
On a workday 300 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 64 people come in from elsewhere.
About 530 people are in Hamlet on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Hamlet’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hamlet workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 464 commuters (the 2% 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.
Where Hamlet goes to work
Where Hamlet clocks in
11% 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.
Jobs in Hamlet: what the 67 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hamlet, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 67. 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 Hamlet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Hamlet, by distance
About 20% 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.
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 Hamlet: questions
What is the median household income in Hamlet?
$73,542 (±$15,670) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hamlet?
11.7%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hamlet?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hamlet work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Knox (11%, 6 mi), Plymouth (9%, 14 mi), Oregon Township (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hamlet without a car?
1% 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 Hamlet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hamlet
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.