Madison Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. 181 jobs are based in Madison Township; 771 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Madison Township are A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Madison Township at work: what stands out
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Madison Township
On income, poverty and job access, Madison Township is better than 80% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($100,804, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Madison Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Madison Township could be anywhere from B to A.
In and out of Madison Township on a workday
On a workday 721 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 131 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Madison Township on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
12% of working residents work in South Bend
Where Madison Township clocks in
12% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
39% of the jobs in Madison Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Madison Township, 2014 → 2024: 153 → 181. 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 Madison Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Madison Township takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Madison Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 674 commuters (the 8% 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.
The distance from Madison Township to work
About 16% 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.
Most of Madison Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Madison Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 732 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). 6.1% of Madison Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Madison Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Madison Township next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400: 666th of 5,343 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
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| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 161 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 664 | Richlandtown PA | 1,335 | $74K | 5.0% | 5.1% | <1% | A− |
| 665 | Marathon City WI | 1,547 | $90K | 3.9% | 0.4% | 14% | A− |
| 666 | Madison Township IN | 1,788 | $101K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 6% | A− |
| 667 | Ravenna Township MN | 2,282 | $131K | 1.6% | 5.5% | 1% | A− |
| 668 | Perry Township OH | 1,459 | $98K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Madison Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Madison Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Penn Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Madison Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Township | – | A− | B− | 21 min | $100,804 |
| Union Township | under 3% | B+ | C− | 30 min | $76,636 |
| Penn Township | 6% | C+ | B | 21 min | $65,544 |
| Locke Township | under 3% | B | A− | 19 min | $87,734 |
| German Township | under 3% | B | B+ | 20 min | $79,175 |
| Olive Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 28 min | $81,510 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Madison 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 Madison Township: questions
What is the median household income in Madison Township?
$100,804 (±$18,946) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Madison Township?
5.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Madison Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Madison Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Bend (12%, 12 mi), Mishawaka (11%, 10 mi), Elkhart (10%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Madison Township walkable?
Madison Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Madison Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Madison Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Madison 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.