Photo: Nyttend · Public domainRossville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
266 jobs are based in Rossville for 615 working residents. Rossville grades B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 3% work in Rossville itself; outside it, Lafayette draws the most (33%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Rossville, in brief
Income, poverty and work: Rossville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Rossville is better than 49% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Rossville’s grade.
Unemployment (6.2%) is left out: Rossville’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, Rossville could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where Rossville goes to work
Where Rossville clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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 daily flow of workers through Rossville
On a workday 598 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 249 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Rossville on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Rossville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rossville, 2013 → 2023: 259 → 266. 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 Rossville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Rossville: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rossville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 744 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.
How far Rossville’s workers travel
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Rossville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rossville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 789 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). 1.1% of Rossville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rossville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rossville is 2,149th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,147 | Jackson Township IN | 1,190 | $69K | 3.4% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,148 | Richland Township MI | 1,511 | $88K | 7.1% | 10.5% | 8% | B− |
| 2,149 | Rossville IN | 1,525 | $71K | 8.8% | 6.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,150 | Scottsville NY | 1,994 | $80K | 11.1% | 6.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,151 | Jefferson Township IN | 1,390 | $56K | 4.8% | 3.8% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Rossville, 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 Rossville: questions
What is the median household income in Rossville?
$71,473 (±$9,476) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rossville?
8.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rossville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rossville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (33%, 14 mi), Frankfort (11%, 10 mi), West Lafayette (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rossville walkable?
Rossville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rossville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rossville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rossville
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.