Photo: Andyrowell94 at en.wikipedia · Public domainFewer people are out of work in Upland (2.2%) than in 82% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Upland itself; outside it, Marion draws the most (14%, 10 miles). Upland grades B+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 20% of workers; Indiana has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Upland: the figures worth knowing
Upland’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Upland is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #195 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Upland’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Upland could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Commuting from Upland: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Upland workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,451 commuters (the 20% 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.
Who works in Upland, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,081 residents head out to work, 152 work right here, and 586 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Upland on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Upland to work: where people go
Where Upland clocks in
14% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Upland is a services town
738 jobs are based in Upland.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Upland, 2013 → 2023: 971 → 738. 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 Upland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Upland commutes
About 26% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Upland
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Upland is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns, #8 of 593 in Indiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 29.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 9.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,807 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). 2.6% of Upland households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Upland’s commuters take a bus or train.
Upland next to U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200: 1,454th of 4,264 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 132 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,452 | Annville Township PA | 5,037 | $71K | 4.3% | 5.0% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,453 | Pretty Bayou FL | 2,906 | $85K | 5.8% | 4.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,454 | Upland IN | 3,835 | $84K | 9.7% | 2.2% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,455 | Silverton OH | 4,887 | $72K | 14.2% | 2.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,456 | Sublimity OR | 2,882 | $78K | 10.9% | 1.8% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Upland, 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 Upland: questions
What is the median household income in Upland?
$83,839 (±$18,865) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Upland?
9.7%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Upland?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Upland work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (14%, 10 mi), Indianapolis (7%, 58 mi), Muncie (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Upland walkable?
Upland is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 29% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Upland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Upland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Upland
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.