With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Liberty Township works elsewhere
The two grades for Liberty Township are B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Liberty Township has 464 jobs, against 1,613 working residents. For 2% of workers, the job is at home, where Indiana as a whole has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Liberty Township
Liberty Township and Muncie trade workers both ways
Muncie is the top workplace for Liberty Township residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Liberty Township come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Liberty Township is a place people come home to
There are 464 jobs based in Liberty Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Liberty Township has about 3,300 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Liberty Township 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Liberty Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Liberty Township is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #293 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Liberty Township’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Liberty Township could be anywhere from C− to A−.
33% of working residents work in Muncie
Where Liberty Township clocks in
33% of workers
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.
The daily commute in and out of Liberty Township
On a workday 1,515 residents head out to work, 98 work right here, and 366 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Liberty Township on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Liberty Township’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Liberty Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,133 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Liberty Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Liberty Township, 2014 → 2024: 520 → 464. 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 Liberty Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Liberty Township to work
About 26% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Liberty Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Liberty Township is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns, #551 of 593 in Indiana. Both inputs place Liberty Township 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 2,175 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). 3.0% of Liberty Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Liberty Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Liberty Township is 1,957th of 4,000 U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000 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+ |
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| 95 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 8% | A+ |
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| 130 | Hidden Valley IN | 5,706 | $121K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,955 | Lexington WA | 4,413 | $101K | 3.5% | 11.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,956 | Kewaskum WI | 4,561 | $94K | 10.8% | 6.0% | 9% | B− |
| 1,957 | Liberty Township IN | 4,476 | $74K | 10.5% | 3.3% | 6% | B− |
| 1,958 | Prairieville Township MI | 3,393 | $67K | 7.1% | 3.8% | 4% | B− |
| 1,959 | Geneva NY | 3,564 | $83K | 13.7% | 2.5% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | 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 Liberty Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
How Liberty Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Center Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Liberty Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Township | – | B− | D | 26 min | $74,457 |
| Perry Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 23 min | $65,088 |
| Stoney Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Delaware Township | under 2% | B | C | 29 min | $74,032 |
| Center Township | 4% | C− | A | 19 min | $44,165 |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | C | C | 29 min | $53,571 |
| Hamilton Township | under 2% | B+ | D− | 21 min | $74,274 |
Same-state neighbors only. Stoney Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Liberty 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 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 Liberty Township: questions
What is the median household income in Liberty Township?
$74,457 (±$17,169) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Liberty Township?
10.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Liberty Township?
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 Liberty Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muncie (33%, 6 mi), Indianapolis (11%, 54 mi), Center Township (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Liberty Township walkable?
Liberty Township is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Liberty Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Liberty Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Liberty Township
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.