Photo: ONUnicorn · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Ingalls commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% work in Ingalls; the top destination outside it is Indianapolis (35%, 22 miles). 432 jobs are based in Ingalls, against 1,196 working residents. For jobs and income Ingalls is better than 53% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Ingalls
One in three of Ingalls works in Indianapolis
418 working residents, 35%, have their main job in Indianapolis, 22 miles away. That’s 18 times as many as work in Ingalls itself. The commute map ↓
Ingalls workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 24 across Indiana. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Ingalls
64% of Ingalls residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 44% of the jobs based in Ingalls pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Ingalls are held by workers 29 or younger, against 28% of Ingalls’ own working residents. 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.
Why Ingalls gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Ingalls’ grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ingalls could be anywhere from C to A.
The towns that employ Ingalls’ residents
Where Ingalls clocks in
35% of workers
9% 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 daily trip from Ingalls: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ingalls workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 889 commuters (the 15% 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 kinds of work in Ingalls
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ingalls, 2013 → 2023: 206 → 432. 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 Ingalls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Ingalls for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,177 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 413 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Ingalls on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Ingalls
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.
Ingalls is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,041 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). 1.5% of Ingalls households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Ingalls’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ingalls next to U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,600: 2,222nd of 5,278 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 5 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 190 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Fulton Township MI | 2,436 | $85K | 8.6% | 3.2% | 7% | B− |
| 2,221 | Desert Hills AZ | 2,944 | $62K | 3.9% | 2.9% | 5% | B− |
| 2,222 | Ingalls IN | 2,635 | $74K | 9.6% | 5.7% | 2% | B− |
| 2,223 | Southern Shores NC | 3,110 | $131K | 0.6% | 13.2% | 6% | B− |
| 2,224 | Mechanic Falls ME | 3,286 | $70K | 9.2% | 3.0% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,278 | 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 Ingalls, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Ingalls and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ingalls workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingalls | – | B− | C | 31 min | $74,236 |
| Pendleton | 2% | B | A− | 24 min | $86,806 |
| Green Township | under 2% | B+ | D | 32 min | $96,875 |
| Fall Creek Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 24 min | $90,726 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Pendleton. Darker towns draw more of Ingalls’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 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 Ingalls: questions
What is the median household income in Ingalls?
$74,236 (±$9,222) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ingalls?
9.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ingalls?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ingalls work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Indianapolis (35%, 22 mi), Fishers (9%, 9 mi), Carmel (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ingalls walkable?
Ingalls is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ingalls without a car?
2% 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 Ingalls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ingalls
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.