Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Saratoga has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
0% of workers work from home (Indiana 11%). Saratoga has 10 jobs for 102 working residents. Hardly any work in Saratoga itself; outside it, Winchester draws the most (12%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Saratoga on a workday afternoon
On a workday 101 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Saratoga on a workday afternoon, 40% 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 people from Saratoga work
Where Saratoga clocks in
12% of workers
8% 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 kinds of work in Saratoga
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Saratoga, 2014 → 2024: 11 → 10. 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 Saratoga’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Saratoga: about 17 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Saratoga workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 92 commuters (the 0% 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.
Saratoga’s commute, mile by mile
About 24% 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 Saratoga: questions
What is the median household income in Saratoga?
$53,125 (±$25,914) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Saratoga?
11.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Saratoga?
17 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Saratoga work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winchester (12%, 6 mi), Richmond (11%, 28 mi), Union City (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Saratoga without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Saratoga, from the people who make the trip.
More of Saratoga
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.