Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Ridgeville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Ridgeville has 93 jobs; 263 of its residents have a job. Only 5% stay in Ridgeville for work; outside it, Muncie is the main destination (17%, 20 miles). 1% of workers have no commute at all, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Ridgeville
Ridgeville’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ridgeville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 293 commuters (the 1% 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.
Ridgeville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 251 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 520 people are in Ridgeville on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Ridgeville goes to work
Where Ridgeville clocks in
17% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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.
Goods jobs make up 72% of work in Ridgeville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ridgeville, 2014 → 2024: 72 → 93. 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 Ridgeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Ridgeville commutes less than 20 miles
About 21% 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 Ridgeville: questions
What is the median household income in Ridgeville?
$38,750 (±$7,347) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ridgeville?
13.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ridgeville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ridgeville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muncie (17%, 20 mi), Winchester (11%, 9 mi), Portland (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Ridgeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ridgeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ridgeville
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.