Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Where Ora earns its living
The Census job records count 23 working residents of Ora and no jobs based in it. For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Indiana has 11%. Hardly any work in Ora; the top destination outside it is Chicago (9%, 74 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ora quiets down on a workday
On a workday 23 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 73 people are in Ora on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.00 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Ora commutes to
Where Ora clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
Working from home in Ora
of Ora workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 26 commuters (the 0% 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.
Ora’s commute, mile by mile
About 35% 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.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Ora workers work outside Indiana. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ora: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ora?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ora work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (9%, 74 mi), Winamac (9%, 9 mi), Plymouth (9%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ora without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ora
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.