Haven Hubbard Home · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJobs and the daily commute in Olive Township
Working residents average 27 minutes each way (Indiana 24, U.S. 26). Olive Township grades B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in ten stay in Olive Township for work; outside it, South Bend is the main destination (28%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Olive Township at work: what stands out
Olive Township makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Olive Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Olive Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Olive Township and South Bend trade workers both ways
South Bend is the top workplace for Olive Township residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Olive Township come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Olive Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
79% of the jobs based in Olive Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 63% of the jobs Olive Township residents hold. 91% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Olive Township. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Olive Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Olive Township is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #175 of 593 in Indiana. The poverty rate holds Olive Township’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Olive Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
A place that makes things: 49% of Olive Township’s jobs are in goods
1,819 jobs are based in Olive Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Olive Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,724 → 1,819. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Olive Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Olive Township’s working residents head each day
Where Olive Township clocks in
28% of workers
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.
Who works in Olive Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,317 residents head out to work, 161 work right here, and 1,658 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 (1.23 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 27 minutes each way for Olive Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Olive Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,857 commuters (the 11% 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.
Where in the region Olive Township works
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Olive Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Olive Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #379 of 593 in Indiana. Both inputs place Olive 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 2,091 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). 3.9% of Olive Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Olive Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Olive Township next to U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,900: 1,274th of 4,136 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 91 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 100 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 8% | A+ |
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| 133 | Hidden Valley IN | 5,706 | $121K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,272 | Clifton AZ | 3,752 | $78K | 2.5% | 0.8% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,273 | Manchester Township IN | 3,345 | $97K | 6.1% | 3.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,274 | Olive Township IN | 4,337 | $79K | 3.5% | 4.4% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,275 | Stillwater Township NJ | 4,072 | $123K | 2.3% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,276 | Mohawk NY | 3,545 | $81K | 8.1% | 0.9% | 13% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,136 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Olive Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Olive Township
The biggest share goes to Wills Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Olive Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Township | – | B+ | C | 27 min | $78,964 |
| Greene Township | under 2% | B | D− | 37 min | $74,587 |
| Warren Township | under 2% | A− | D | 21 min | $89,958 |
| Wills Township | 3% | A | C− | 38 min | $113,349 |
| Lincoln Township | under 2% | A− | C+ | 30 min | $105,121 |
| Hudson Township | under 2% | A− | D− | 42 min | $99,669 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Olive 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 2024, 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 Olive Township: questions
What is the median household income in Olive Township?
$78,964 (±$6,673) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Olive Township?
3.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Olive Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Olive Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Bend (28%, 10 mi), Mishawaka (7%, 16 mi), New Carlisle (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Olive Township walkable?
Olive Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Olive Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Olive Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Olive Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.