Tippecanoe Township has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
At home: 23% of workers have no commute at all (Indiana 11%). Employers in Tippecanoe Township report 201 jobs for 504 working residents. Jobs and income earn Tippecanoe Township B; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tippecanoe Township at work: what stands out
Tippecanoe Township and Winamac trade workers both ways
Winamac is the top workplace for Tippecanoe Township residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Tippecanoe Township come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Tippecanoe Township works from home
23% of Tippecanoe Township workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 504 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Tippecanoe Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Tippecanoe Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tippecanoe Township’s grade up (4.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Tippecanoe 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, Tippecanoe Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
24% of working residents work in Winamac
Where Tippecanoe Township clocks in
24% of workers
3% 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 23 minutes each way for Tippecanoe Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tippecanoe Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 388 commuters (the 23% 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.
Tippecanoe Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 489 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 186 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Tippecanoe Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Goods, not services: 44% of the jobs in Tippecanoe Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tippecanoe Township, 2014 → 2024: 125 → 201. 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 Tippecanoe Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Tippecanoe Township, by distance
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.
Few in Tippecanoe Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tippecanoe Township is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 505 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). 10.7% of Tippecanoe Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Tippecanoe Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tippecanoe Township is 808th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 53 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 4% | A+ |
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| 84 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | <1% | A |
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| 124 | Long Beach IN | 1,158 | $122K | 3.8% | 2.6% | 2% | A |
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| 806 | Hale WI | 1,081 | $92K | 7.0% | 3.8% | 2% | B |
| 807 | Madison Township IN | 1,203 | $73K | 6.4% | 2.2% | 7% | B |
| 808 | Tippecanoe Township IN | 1,020 | $96K | 4.9% | 1.3% | 3% | B |
| 809 | Cannon Falls Township MN | 1,033 | $98K | 12.2% | 3.3% | 2% | B |
| 810 | Wakeshma Township MI | 1,331 | $78K | 6.9% | 12.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Tippecanoe Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Tippecanoe Township
The biggest share goes to Monroe Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tippecanoe Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tippecanoe Township | – | B | C+ | 23 min | $95,556 |
| Harrison Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| North Bend Township | under 2% | D | D− | 31 min | $61,375 |
| Aubbeenaubbee Township | under 2% | C | D− | 20 min | $78,068 |
| Monroe Township | 6% | C+ | B | 21 min | $54,345 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Harrison Township and Franklin Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tippecanoe 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 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 Tippecanoe Township: questions
What is the median household income in Tippecanoe Township?
$95,556 (±$32,822) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tippecanoe Township?
4.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tippecanoe Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tippecanoe Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winamac (24%, 7 mi), Monroe Township (6%, 8 mi), Logansport (3%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Tippecanoe Township walkable?
Tippecanoe Township is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tippecanoe Township without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tippecanoe Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tippecanoe Township
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. 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.