With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Ogden Dunes works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Ogden Dunes is ahead of 87% of U.S. towns. 45 jobs are based in Ogden Dunes for 422 working residents. Ogden Dunes grades A+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Ogden Dunes apart
Ogden Dunes is a place people come home to
There are 45 jobs based in Ogden Dunes, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ogden Dunes has about 790 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Ogden Dunes works from home
32% of Ogden Dunes workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Time on the road ↓
Ogden Dunes workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 24 across Indiana. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 422 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Ogden Dunes’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ogden Dunes is better than 97% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ogden Dunes’ grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Ogden Dunes’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, Ogden Dunes could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Who commutes out of Ogden Dunes, and who commutes in
On a workday 403 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Ogden Dunes 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.
Time on the road from Ogden Dunes: about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ogden Dunes workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 341 commuters (the 32% 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.
8% of working residents work in Portage
Where Ogden Dunes clocks in
8% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Ogden Dunes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ogden Dunes, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 45. 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 Ogden Dunes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Ogden Dunes commutes less than 15 miles
About 18% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Ogden Dunes
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ogden Dunes is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.9% 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 502 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 65% 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). 1.2% of Ogden Dunes households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Ogden Dunes’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ogden Dunes is 82nd of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Reed Township ND | 1,151 | $131K | 0.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 81 | Mogul NV | 1,050 | $145K | 2.3% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 82 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| 83 | University Heights IA | 1,177 | $111K | 14.5% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 84 | Colma CA | 1,385 | $148K | 6.7% | 4.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 164 | Jefferson Township IN | 1,541 | $122K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Ogden Dunes, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Ogden Dunes and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Portage (8%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ogden Dunes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ogden Dunes | – | A+ | A− | 37 min | $117,000 |
| Portage | 8% | B− | B− | 27 min | $76,276 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ogden Dunes’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 Ogden Dunes: questions
What is the median household income in Ogden Dunes?
$117,000 (±$31,780) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ogden Dunes?
3.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ogden Dunes?
37 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ogden Dunes work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portage (8%, 3 mi), Merrillville (7%, 13 mi), Valparaiso (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ogden Dunes walkable?
Ogden Dunes is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 10.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ogden Dunes without a car?
3% 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 Ogden Dunes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ogden Dunes
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.