Normal Hall · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainLadoga has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 3% stay in Ladoga for work; outside it, Crawfordsville is the main destination (22%, 10 miles). There are 114 jobs in Ladoga for 436 working residents. The two grades for Ladoga are C for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Ladoga in brief
Ladoga and Crawfordsville trade workers both ways
Crawfordsville is the top workplace for Ladoga residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Ladoga come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Ladoga is a place people come home to
There are 114 jobs based in Ladoga, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ladoga has about 780 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 436 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Ladoga’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Ladoga is better than 28% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ladoga’s grade.
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Ladoga’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, Ladoga could be anywhere from D to B.
Out of Ladoga to work: where people go
Where Ladoga clocks in
22% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Ladoga
On a workday 423 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 101 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Ladoga 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.
The kinds of work in Ladoga
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ladoga, 2013 → 2023: 123 → 114. 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 Ladoga’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Ladoga, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ladoga workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 7% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ladoga
About 17% 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.
Ladoga is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ladoga is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ladoga near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 515 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). 7.4% of Ladoga households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ladoga’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Ladoga is 2,193rd among 3,771 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Greenville IN | 1,452 | $135K | 5.6% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,191 | Indian Lake NY | 1,344 | $63K | 6.1% | 4.5% | 38% | C |
| 2,192 | Millwood Township OH | 1,225 | $55K | 6.0% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,193 | Ladoga IN | 1,103 | $62K | 11.2% | 0.8% | 3% | C |
| 2,194 | Concord MI | 1,083 | $61K | 13.5% | 3.4% | 3% | C |
| 2,195 | Hayfield MN | 1,358 | $69K | 15.9% | 2.6% | 13% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Ladoga, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Ladoga: questions
What is the median household income in Ladoga?
$61,667 (±$19,596) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ladoga?
11.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ladoga?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ladoga work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Crawfordsville (22%, 10 mi), Indianapolis (9%, 36 mi), Lafayette (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ladoga walkable?
Ladoga is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ladoga without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ladoga, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ladoga
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.