Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Maples has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Maples for work; outside it, Fort Wayne is the main destination (32%, 11 miles). Maples has 2 jobs, against 19 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Indiana has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Maples
On a workday 19 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 27 people are in Maples 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.
Out of Maples to work: where people go
Where Maples clocks in
26% 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.
Most jobs in Maples are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maples, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 2. 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 Maples’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Maples
of Maples workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 27 commuters (the 0% 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 Maples goes to work
About 42% 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.
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 Maples: questions
What is the poverty rate in Maples?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Maples work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (32%, 11 mi), Indianapolis (26%, 105 mi), Butler (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Maples without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maples, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maples
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.