Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Odon earn less than those in 89% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 11.4% of residents, next to 12.3% for Indiana as a whole. Jobs and income earn Odon D; getting around on foot earns it B+. Home is the office for 2% of workers, where Indiana as a whole has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Odon
Young people hold many of the jobs here
42% of the jobs based in Odon are held by workers 29 or younger, against 27% of Odon’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Odon than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Odon fell from 690 in 2013 to 407 in 2023, −41%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Odon makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Odon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Odon residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
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 487 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Odon gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Odon is better than 15% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Odon’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($49,342, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Odon’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, Odon could be anywhere from D to C.
Making and building: 44% of jobs based in Odon
407 jobs are based in Odon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Odon, 2013 → 2023: 690 → 407. 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 Odon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Odon
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 385 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Washington
Where Odon clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
About 26 minutes to work from Odon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Odon workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 521 commuters (the 2% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Odon
About 20% 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.
In Odon, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Odon is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 532 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). 9.4% of Odon households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Odon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Odon is 4,427th among 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,425 | Point Clear AL | 1,511 | $46K | 16.1% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 4,426 | Salamatof AK | 1,149 | $67K | 14.2% | 34.0% | — | C− |
| 4,427 | Odon IN | 1,378 | $49K | 11.4% | 2.8% | 5% | D |
| 4,428 | Brooklyn IA | 1,467 | $73K | 21.6% | 12.0% | 16% | D |
| 4,429 | Satanta KS | 1,046 | $51K | 9.6% | 3.4% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Odon, 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 Odon: questions
What is the median household income in Odon?
$49,342 (±$7,961) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Odon?
11.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Odon?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Odon work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (9%, 16 mi), Madison Township (8%, 2 mi), Vincennes (5%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Odon walkable?
Odon is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Odon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Odon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Odon
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.