Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0More than half of Leo-Cedarville’s working residents commute to Fort Wayne
Hardly any work in Leo-Cedarville; the top destination outside it is Fort Wayne (51%, 11 miles). Leo-Cedarville grades A+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Leo-Cedarville is ahead of 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Leo-Cedarville in brief
More than half of Leo-Cedarville works in Fort Wayne
883 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Fort Wayne, 11 miles away. That’s 51 times as many as work in Leo-Cedarville itself. The commute map ↓
Leo-Cedarville is a place people come home to
There are 375 jobs based in Leo-Cedarville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Leo-Cedarville has about 2,400 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
35% of the jobs based in Leo-Cedarville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 21% of Leo-Cedarville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Leo-Cedarville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Leo-Cedarville is better than 95% of U.S. towns, #23 of 593 in Indiana. The poverty rate is its strongest input (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Leo-Cedarville could be anywhere from A− to A+.
The towns that employ Leo-Cedarville’s residents
Where Leo-Cedarville clocks in
5% 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 Leo-Cedarville
On a workday 1,725 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 360 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Leo-Cedarville on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
0.22 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.
What the 375 jobs in Leo-Cedarville are
375 jobs are based in Leo-Cedarville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leo-Cedarville, 2014 → 2024: 303 → 375. 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 Leo-Cedarville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Leo-Cedarville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leo-Cedarville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,643 commuters (the 11% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Leo-Cedarville
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 Leo-Cedarville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Leo-Cedarville is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns, #527 of 593 in Indiana. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,847 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.2% of Leo-Cedarville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Leo-Cedarville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Leo-Cedarville is 198th of 4,153 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 196 | Elizabeth Township PA | 3,951 | $100K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
| 197 | North Barrington IL | 3,125 | $226K | 4.8% | 3.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 198 | Leo-Cedarville IN | 3,790 | $116K | 0.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 199 | Riverdale NJ | 4,144 | $103K | 7.7% | 0.8% | 3% | A+ |
| 200 | Port Washington North NY | 3,154 | $136K | 2.8% | 4.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Leo-Cedarville, 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 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 Leo-Cedarville: questions
What is the median household income in Leo-Cedarville?
$116,375 (±$30,934) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leo-Cedarville?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leo-Cedarville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leo-Cedarville work?
1% work in town.
Is Leo-Cedarville walkable?
Leo-Cedarville is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leo-Cedarville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leo-Cedarville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leo-Cedarville
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.