Niles Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Jobs and income earn Niles Township B; getting around on foot earns it D−. Niles Township has 62 jobs, and 541 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Niles Township for work; outside it, Muncie is the main destination (30%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Niles Township apart on work
Niles Township and Muncie trade workers both ways
Muncie is the top workplace for Niles Township residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Niles Township come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Niles Township is a place people come home to
There are 62 jobs based in Niles Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Niles Township has about 910 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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; with 541 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Niles Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Niles Township is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Niles Township’s grade up (1.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Niles 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, Niles Township could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Where Niles Township goes to work
Where Niles Township clocks in
30% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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.
A workday in Niles Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 538 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Niles Township on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
In Niles Township, 85% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Niles Township, 2013 → 2023: 85 → 62. 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 Niles Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Niles Township takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Niles Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 557 commuters (the 15% 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 Niles Township’s workers travel
About 26% 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 Niles Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Niles Township is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Niles Township 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 658 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). 4.9% of Niles Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Niles Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Niles Township places 1,554th of 5,877 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
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| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 104 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 114 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
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| 1,552 | Lincoln Township SD | 1,159 | $79K | 11.9% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 1,553 | Bergen NY | 1,242 | $89K | 14.9% | 2.3% | 3% | B |
| 1,554 | Niles Township IN | 1,387 | $66K | 1.0% | 0.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,555 | Harrison Township IN | 1,578 | $75K | 12.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,556 | Middlefield NY | 1,870 | $118K | 6.8% | 5.9% | 5% | B |
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| 5,877 | 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 Niles Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Niles Township
The biggest share goes to Delaware Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Niles Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niles Township | – | B | D− | 25 min | $65,750 |
| Delaware Township | 4% | B | C | 29 min | $74,032 |
| Union Township | under 2% | C− | D | 27 min | $66,902 |
| Richland Township | under 2% | D | B− | 25 min | $50,160 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | B− | D− | 33 min | $68,750 |
| Dunkirk | 1% | D | B | 28 min | $46,339 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Niles 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 Niles Township: questions
What is the median household income in Niles Township?
$65,750 (±$14,684) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Niles Township?
1.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Niles Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Niles Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muncie (30%, 12 mi), Indianapolis (11%, 61 mi), Hamilton Township (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Niles Township walkable?
Niles Township is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Niles Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Niles Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Niles 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.