Photo: Nyttend · Public domainLuce Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Only 1% stay in Luce Township for work; outside it, Evansville is the main destination (21%, 19 miles). Luce Township has 109 jobs for 1,048 working residents. The two grades for Luce Township are C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Luce Township at work: what stands out
Where Luce Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Luce Township is better than 36% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Luce Township’s grade up (4.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($62,241, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Luce Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
A workday in Luce Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,033 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 94 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Luce Township on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Where people from Luce Township work
Where Luce Township clocks in
21% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Jobs in Luce Township: what the 109 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Luce Township, 2013 → 2023: 127 → 109. 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 Luce Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Luce Township, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Luce Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,118 commuters (the 6% 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.
How far Luce Township’s workers travel
About 18% 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.
Luce Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Luce Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,185 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). 1.0% of Luce Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Luce Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,099th of 5,207: where Luce Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 5 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 66 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
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| 183 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 3,097 | Oakwood Township IL | 3,048 | $57K | 15.4% | 3.2% | 8% | C+ |
| 3,098 | Washington Township IN | 3,017 | $68K | 16.6% | 2.6% | <1% | C+ |
| 3,099 | Luce Township IN | 2,434 | $62K | 13.3% | 4.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,100 | New Buffalo Township MI | 2,517 | $92K | 13.6% | 12.9% | 13% | C+ |
| 3,101 | Paint Township PA | 2,999 | $61K | 6.4% | 6.4% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Luce Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
How Luce Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Anderson Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Luce Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luce Township | – | C+ | C | 23 min | $62,241 |
| Anderson Township | 3% | A | D− | 23 min | $97,569 |
| Boon Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 24 min | $78,464 |
| Ohio Township | under 3% | B | B | 24 min | $76,125 |
| Grass Township | 3% | C | D− | 28 min | $54,549 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Luce 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 Luce Township: questions
What is the median household income in Luce Township?
$62,241 (±$17,111) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Luce Township?
13.3%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Luce Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Luce Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Evansville (21%, 19 mi), Owensboro (7%, 12 mi), Rockport (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Luce Township walkable?
Luce Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Luce Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Luce Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Luce 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.