A job hub: Vistula has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 179 people come in to work
Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole. Vistula has 179 jobs for 97 working residents. Hardly any stay in Vistula for work; outside it, Goshen is the main destination (14%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Vistula
On a workday 97 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 170 people are in Vistula on a workday afternoon, 91% more 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.
Where Vistula’s workforce comes from
Where Vistula clocks in
14% of workers
12% 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.
Vistula makes things: 87% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vistula, 2013 → 2023: 319 → 179. 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 Vistula’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Vistula
of Vistula workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 38 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.
The distance from Vistula to work
About 16% 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.
Next door to Vistula
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Vistula workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vistula | – | — | — | — | $57,727 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Vistula’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 Vistula: questions
What is the median household income in Vistula?
$57,727 (±$33,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vistula?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Vistula work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goshen (14%, 14 mi), Middlebury (12%, 5 mi), Elkhart (12%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Vistula without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vistula, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vistula
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.