Weller House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Pine Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Pine Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C. Employers in Pine Township report 476 jobs, against 981 working residents. Only 4% stay in Pine Township for work; outside it, Michigan City is the main destination (11%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Pine Township
Income, poverty and work: Pine Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Township is better than 53% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Pine Township’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Pine 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, Pine Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
From Pine Township, about 35 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 832 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.
A workday in Pine Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 946 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 441 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Pine Township on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
The places Pine Township commutes to
Where Pine Township clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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 Pine Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Township, 2013 → 2023: 286 → 476. 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 Pine Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Pine Township goes to work
About 16% 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.
Pine Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 938 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 2.7% of Pine Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Pine Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Pine Township ranks: 2,122nd of 5,207 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 5 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 66 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
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| 183 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,120 | Clinton MI | 2,481 | $83K | 5.2% | 6.5% | 6% | B− |
| 2,121 | Imperial NE | 1,962 | $74K | 7.1% | 1.7% | 42% | B− |
| 2,122 | Pine Township IN | 2,447 | $75K | 11.2% | 2.9% | 4% | B− |
| 2,123 | Fulton Township MI | 2,436 | $85K | 8.6% | 3.2% | 7% | B− |
| 2,124 | Desert Hills AZ | 2,944 | $62K | 3.9% | 2.9% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Pine Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Pine Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Township | – | B− | C | 35 min | $75,274 |
| Westchester Township | under 4% | B | B+ | 26 min | $83,129 |
| Jackson Township | under 4% | A | C− | 26 min | $132,961 |
| Beverly Shores | under 4% | — | — | 40 min | — |
| Coolspring Township | under 4% | C+ | C+ | 22 min | $61,875 |
Same-state neighbors only. Beverly Shores: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pine 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 Pine Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Township?
$75,274 (±$7,928) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Township?
11.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Township?
35 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Michigan City (11%, 6 mi), Valparaiso (9%, 13 mi), Chesterton (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Township walkable?
Pine Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Township without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine 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.