Photo: Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0Utica’s household incomes are higher than in 62% of U.S. towns
Only 1% work in Utica; the top destination outside it is Jeffersonville (21%, 2 miles). Below the poverty line: 9.4% of residents, where Indiana as a whole has 12.3%. Utica grades B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Utica apart on work
A lot of Utica works one town over
36% of working residents work in a town that borders Utica: Jeffersonville (21%), Louisville (12%) and Utica Township (3%). Next door ↓
Utica makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Utica are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Utica residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Most Utica residents work close to home
70% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 554 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Utica’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Utica is better than 75% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 85% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Utica’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, Utica could be anywhere from B to A.
Making and building: 69% of jobs based in Utica
427 jobs are based in Utica.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Utica, 2013 → 2023: 99 → 427. 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 Utica’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Utica commutes
About 15% 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.
Who commutes out of Utica, and who commutes in
On a workday 548 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 421 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Utica on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Utica: the destinations
Where Utica clocks in
21% of workers
10% 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.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Utica
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Utica workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 434 commuters (the 13% 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.
In Utica, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Utica is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Utica near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 498 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 51% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.2% of Utica households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Utica’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Utica ranks 732nd of 5,400 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 730 | Ozawkie Township KS | 1,638 | $99K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 731 | The Galena Territory IL | 1,735 | $118K | 2.5% | 1.9% | 13% | B+ |
| 732 | Utica IN | 1,298 | $85K | 9.4% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 733 | Chesilhurst NJ | 1,564 | $92K | 10.4% | 7.9% | 1% | B+ |
| 734 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Utica, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work next door: 36% of Utica’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Utica workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utica | – | B+ | C− | 23 min | $84,886 |
| Jeffersonville | 21% | B | A− | 20 min | $70,930 |
| Utica Township | 3% | A | C | 21 min | $102,897 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Jeffersonville. Darker towns draw more of Utica’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 Utica: questions
What is the median household income in Utica?
$84,886 (±$8,375) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Utica?
9.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Utica?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Utica work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jeffersonville (21%, 2 mi), Louisville (12%, 10 mi), New Albany (10%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Utica walkable?
Utica is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Utica without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Utica, from the people who make the trip.
More of Utica
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.