Vigo County Home for Dependent Children · Photo: Christina Blust · CC BY-SA 2.0Terre Haute draws about half of Lost Creek Township’s working residents
Only 6% stay in Lost Creek Township for work; outside it, Terre Haute is the main destination (45%, 4 miles). The two grades for Lost Creek Township are B for jobs and income and B for walkability. A typical one-way commute lasts 19 minutes, where Indiana has 24 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lost Creek Township at work: what stands out
Nearly half of Lost Creek Township works in Terre Haute
1,915 working residents, 45%, have their main job in Terre Haute, 4.5 miles away across the town line. That’s 8 times as many as work in Lost Creek Township itself. The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
42% of the jobs in Lost Creek Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Lost Creek Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Indiana. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Indiana worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
What’s behind Lost Creek Township’s Jobs & income grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Lost Creek Township is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #215 of 593 in Indiana. The poverty rate holds Lost Creek Township’s grade up (6.4%, U.S. 11.9%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on family income.
24% of Lost Creek Township’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (15% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 6.4%, against 13.2% for all residents. Unemployment (3.2%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($98,378), since student households pull the household median down ($67,471).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Lost Creek Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Where people from Lost Creek Township work
Where Lost Creek Township clocks in
45% 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 kinds of work in Lost Creek Township
2,480 jobs are based in Lost Creek Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lost Creek Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,260 → 2,480. 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 Lost Creek Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Lost Creek Township: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lost Creek Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,709 commuters (the 9% 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.
Lost Creek Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 4,006 residents head out to work, 273 work right here, and 2,207 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,500 people are in Lost Creek Township on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.58 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 2023, primary jobs.
The distance from Lost Creek Township to work
About 24% 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.
In Lost Creek Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lost Creek Township is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #151 of 593 in Indiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,168 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 24% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 23% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% 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). 2.2% of Lost Creek Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Lost Creek Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lost Creek Township ranks: 1,221st of 2,507 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 102 | McCordsville IN | 13,094 | $111K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
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| 137 | Miller Township IN | 10,161 | $113K | 3.0% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
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| 175 | Huntertown IN | 11,600 | $109K | 3.2% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
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| 1,219 | University of California-Santa Barbara CA | 12,121 | $69K | 17.5% | 14.4% | 15% | B |
| 1,220 | Fultondale AL | 9,307 | $74K | 12.5% | 3.3% | 3% | B |
| 1,221 | Lost Creek Township IN | 11,305 | $67K | 13.2% | 3.2% | 6% | B |
| 1,222 | Mentone CA | 9,514 | $75K | 12.5% | 3.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,223 | Antioch IL | 15,000 | $109K | 7.9% | 8.2% | 9% | B |
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| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Lost Creek Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Next door is work for 47% of Lost Creek Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lost Creek Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Creek Township | – | B | B | 19 min | $67,471 |
| Posey Township | under 1% | B | C− | 23 min | $93,664 |
| Harrison Township | under 1% | D | A+ | 19 min | $41,155 |
| Nevins Township | under 1% | C− | D | 20 min | $66,131 |
| Riley Township | under 1% | B− | D | 24 min | $97,300 |
| Terre Haute | 45% | D | A | 19 min | $43,126 |
| Cloverland | under 1% | — | — | 13 min | — |
| Otter Creek Township | 2% | B− | D | 21 min | $71,732 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cloverland: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Terre Haute. Darker towns draw more of Lost Creek 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.
- Students. 24% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Lost Creek Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lost Creek Township?
$67,471 (±$14,053) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lost Creek Township?
13.2% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 6.4%. Indiana: 12.3%.
How long is the commute from Lost Creek Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lost Creek Township work?
6% work in town.
Is Lost Creek Township walkable?
Lost Creek Township is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lost Creek Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 23% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lost Creek Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lost Creek 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.