Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMonroeville has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for Monroeville are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Monroeville has 196 jobs; 631 of its residents have a job. Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Monroeville in brief
The four measures behind Monroeville’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Monroeville is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Monroeville’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($56,302, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Monroeville’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, Monroeville could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
36% of working residents work in Fort Wayne
Where Monroeville clocks in
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.
How many people are in Monroeville by day
On a workday 600 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 165 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Monroeville on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Jobs in Monroeville: what the 196 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monroeville, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 196. 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 Monroeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes to work from Monroeville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monroeville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 472 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 Monroeville goes to work
About 19% 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.
The commute in Monroeville is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Monroeville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Monroeville 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 500 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 1.0% of Monroeville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Monroeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Monroeville next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 1,630th of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,628 | Pound WI | 1,435 | $84K | 7.2% | 3.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,629 | Shasta CA | 1,387 | $111K | 8.7% | 12.5% | 3% | B− |
| 1,630 | Monroeville IN | 1,355 | $56K | 4.5% | 2.7% | 5% | B− |
| 1,631 | Granger TX | 1,228 | $73K | 11.2% | 6.5% | 2% | B− |
| 1,632 | Hall Township IN | 1,249 | $91K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Monroeville, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Monroeville: questions
What is the median household income in Monroeville?
$56,302 (±$6,221) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monroeville?
4.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monroeville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monroeville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Wayne (36%, 16 mi), Monroe Township (8%, 1 mi), New Haven (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Monroeville walkable?
Monroeville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Monroeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monroeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monroeville
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.