Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 2.1 jobs in Remington for every working resident, and 1,263 people commute in
Jobs and income earn Remington B−; getting around on foot earns it D. Remington has 1,318 jobs; 632 of its residents have a job. About one in ten stay in Remington for work; outside it, Rensselaer is the main destination (16%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Remington apart on work
Remington is where the jobs are
Remington has 1,318 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,100 people are in town, 49% more than the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
62% of the jobs in Remington are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Remington than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Remington fell from 1,806 in 2013 to 1,318 in 2023, −27%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 632 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Remington’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Remington is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Remington’s grade up (8.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Remington’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, Remington could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who leaves Remington for work, and who comes in
On a workday 577 residents head out to work and 55 work right here.
About 2,100 people are in Remington on a workday afternoon, 49% more than live here.
2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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 Remington’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Remington, 2013 → 2023: 1,806 → 1,318. 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 Remington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Remington’s workers come from
Where Remington clocks in
16% 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.
About 22 minutes to work from Remington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Remington workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 725 commuters (the 6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Remington
About 27% 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.
The commute in Remington is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Remington is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Remington 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 773 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). 1.8% of Remington households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Remington’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,289th of 5,877: where Remington ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,287 | Jackson Township OH | 1,147 | $81K | 13.3% | 10.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,288 | Dimock Township PA | 1,224 | $88K | 8.2% | 7.9% | 3% | B− |
| 2,289 | Remington IN | 1,392 | $76K | 8.9% | 1.6% | 9% | B− |
| 2,290 | Loran Township IL | 1,313 | $73K | 5.1% | 0.8% | 8% | B− |
| 2,291 | Charlevoix Township MI | 1,797 | $81K | 7.1% | 2.2% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Remington, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Remington: questions
What is the median household income in Remington?
$75,875 (±$16,378) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Remington?
8.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Remington?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Remington work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rensselaer (16%, 13 mi), Lafayette (10%, 29 mi), Marion Township (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Remington walkable?
Remington is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Remington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Remington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Remington
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.