Raglesville at work: jobs, income and the commute
60% of workers work from home; Indiana has 11%. Only 3% work in Raglesville itself; outside it, Van Buren Township draws the most (31%, 2 miles). Raglesville has 33 jobs, and 39 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Raglesville
On a workday 38 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 32 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 (0.85 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.
The places Raglesville commutes to
Where Raglesville clocks in
10% 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.
Raglesville works in goods: 100% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Raglesville, 2014 → 2024: 29 → 33. 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 Raglesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Raglesville
of Raglesville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 60% 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.
Half of Raglesville commutes less than 7 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 2024.
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 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 Raglesville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Raglesville?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Raglesville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Van Buren Township (31%, 2 mi), Barr Township (13%, 10 mi), Bogard Township (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Raglesville 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 Raglesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Raglesville
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.