Sims Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
2% of workers have no commute at all; Indiana has 11%. Employers in Sims Township report 293 jobs; 677 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Sims Township is better than 52% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Sims Township at work: what stands out
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sims Township
The poverty rate holds Sims Township’s grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Sims Township’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, Sims Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
34% of working residents work in Marion
Where Sims Township clocks in
34% of workers
6% 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.
Sims Township by day and by night
On a workday 666 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 282 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Sims Township 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.
What Sims Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sims Township, 2013 → 2023: 148 → 293. 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 Sims Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Sims Township takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sims Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 771 commuters (the 3% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Sims Township
About 20% 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.
Most trips from Sims Township start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 791 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). 0.9% of Sims Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Sims Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,055th of 5,760: where Sims Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 112 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 164 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,053 | West Traverse Township MI | 1,740 | $94K | 6.8% | 4.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,054 | Diamond Ridge AK | 1,329 | $88K | 3.9% | 2.3% | — | B− |
| 2,055 | Sims Township IN | 1,668 | $75K | 7.0% | 1.9% | 2% | B− |
| 2,056 | Wright NY | 1,519 | $86K | 7.0% | 2.6% | 2% | B− |
| 2,057 | Worth Township PA | 1,357 | $69K | 7.1% | 10.2% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Sims Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
The towns around Sims Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sims Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sims Township | – | B− | C+ | 21 min | $74,717 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | D | B+ | 17 min | $45,345 |
| Richland Township | 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Green Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jackson Township and Green Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Richland Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Richland Township. Darker towns draw more of Sims Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Sims Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sims Township?
$74,717 (±$10,420) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sims Township?
7.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sims Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sims Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (34%, 9 mi), Indianapolis (6%, 54 mi), Gas City (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sims Township walkable?
Sims Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sims Township without a car?
<1% 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 Sims Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sims Township
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.