Kirklin Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Kirklin Township has 157 jobs, against 442 working residents. For jobs and income Kirklin Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (D). Measured by household income, Kirklin Township is behind 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kirklin Township at work: what stands out
Where Kirklin Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Kirklin Township’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($58,403, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Kirklin Township’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, Kirklin Township could be anywhere from D to A−.
From Kirklin Township, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kirklin Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 572 commuters (the 5% 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.
A workday in Kirklin Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 414 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 129 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Kirklin Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
23% of working residents work in Frankfort
Where Kirklin Township clocks in
23% of workers
9% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 48% of the jobs in Kirklin Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kirklin Township, 2013 → 2023: 81 → 157. 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 Kirklin Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Kirklin Township works
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.
In Kirklin Township, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 601 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). 3.7% of Kirklin Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kirklin Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kirklin Township places 2,507th of 4,866 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 85 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,505 | Stanton NE | 1,506 | $77K | 10.7% | 2.4% | 7% | C |
| 2,506 | Liberty Township IN | 1,442 | $72K | 13.0% | 6.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,507 | Kirklin Township IN | 1,246 | $58K | 13.0% | 1.6% | 6% | C |
| 2,508 | Clay Township IN | 1,273 | $71K | 13.4% | 4.0% | <1% | C |
| 2,509 | Herzog Township KS | 1,644 | $78K | 10.6% | 3.9% | 10% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Kirklin Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
How Kirklin Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kirklin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklin Township | – | C | D | 31 min | $58,403 |
| Marion Township | under 2% | A | D− | 23 min | $91,250 |
| Sugar Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Michigan Township | under 2% | C | C− | 23 min | $50,875 |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | B | C | 16 min | $61,042 |
| Johnson Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sugar Creek Township and Johnson Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Clinton Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kirklin 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 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 Kirklin Township: questions
What is the median household income in Kirklin Township?
$58,403 (±$22,186) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kirklin Township?
13.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kirklin Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kirklin Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frankfort (23%, 10 mi), Indianapolis (9%, 33 mi), Lafayette (8%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kirklin Township walkable?
Kirklin Township is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kirklin Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kirklin Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kirklin Township
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.