Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWork means Marion for about two in five of Pleasant Township’s working residents
Pleasant Township grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns. Only 5% work in Pleasant Township; the top destination outside it is Marion (41%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Pleasant Township in brief
Income, poverty and work: Pleasant Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pleasant Township is better than 24% of U.S. towns, #502 of 593 in Indiana. Job access by car holds Pleasant Township’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.4%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pleasant Township could be anywhere from D to B.
The places Pleasant Township commutes to
Where Pleasant Township clocks in
41% of workers
7% of workers
3% 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 Pleasant Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,575 residents head out to work, 145 work right here, and 1,736 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,100 people are in Pleasant Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.69 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.
What Pleasant Township’s employers do
1,881 jobs are based in Pleasant Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,357 → 1,881. 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 Pleasant Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pleasant Township spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasant Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,953 commuters (the 5% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Pleasant Township
About 23% 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.
Getting around Pleasant Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pleasant Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #340 of 593 in Indiana. 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 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,114 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). 11.3% of Pleasant Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pleasant Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,400, Pleasant Township ranks 2,551st of 3,167 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
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| 73 | Worth Township IN | 6,688 | $123K | 4.1% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 119 | Hidden Valley IN | 5,706 | $121K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 170 | New Whiteland IN | 5,937 | $90K | 3.3% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,549 | Corning CA | 8,260 | $57K | 17.9% | 2.8% | 15% | C− |
| 2,550 | Pittston PA | 7,715 | $50K | 20.0% | 5.6% | 6% | C− |
| 2,551 | Pleasant Township IN | 6,984 | $59K | 13.4% | 6.4% | 5% | C− |
| 2,552 | Crooked River Ranch OR | 5,160 | $86K | 9.4% | 8.6% | 6% | C− |
| 2,553 | Anamosa IA | 5,901 | $61K | 18.5% | 5.2% | 15% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,167 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Pleasant Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Pleasant Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pleasant Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Township | – | C− | C+ | 24 min | $59,194 |
| Liberty Township | under 2% | B− | D | 21 min | $65,046 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | D | B+ | 17 min | $45,345 |
| Richland Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Washington Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 18 min | $51,014 |
Same-state neighbors only. Richland Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pleasant 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 Pleasant Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant Township?
$59,194 (±$14,575) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant Township?
13.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasant Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasant Township work?
5% work in town.
Is Pleasant Township walkable?
Pleasant Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pleasant Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pleasant Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant 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.