Wallace Covered Bridge · Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Wallace works elsewhere
Home is the office for 4% of workers (Indiana 11%). Wallace has 15 jobs, and 27 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Wallace for work; outside it, Union Township is the main destination (15%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Wallace: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 27 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 70 people are in Wallace on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
The places Wallace commutes to
Where Wallace clocks in
15% of workers
11% of workers
11% 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.
Wallace works in goods: 53% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wallace, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 15. 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 Wallace’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Wallace: about 46 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wallace workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 69 commuters (the 4% 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 commute from Wallace, by distance
About 19% 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.
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 Wallace: questions
What is the median household income in Wallace?
$75,500 (±$36,787) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wallace?
2.1%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wallace?
46 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wallace work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Union Township (15%, 14 mi), Covington (11%, 17 mi), Indianapolis (11%, 55 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wallace without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wallace, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wallace
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.