Photo: Valerie Everett · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Walton are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
20.8% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 12.3% for Indiana as a whole. For jobs and income Walton is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (C). Only 1% work in Walton; the top destination outside it is Logansport (26%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Walton apart on work
Walton and Logansport trade workers both ways
Logansport is the top workplace for Walton residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Walton come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Walton pay little
26% of the jobs based in Walton pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 410 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Walton
Job access by car holds Walton’s grade up (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,660, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Walton’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, Walton could be anywhere from D to C+.
Out of Walton to work: where people go
Where Walton clocks in
26% 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.
The kinds of work in Walton
322 jobs are based in Walton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Walton, 2013 → 2023: 363 → 322. 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 Walton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Walton
On a workday 405 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 317 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 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.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Walton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Walton workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 349 commuters (the 6% 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.
How far it is to work from Walton
About 18% 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.
In Walton, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 371 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). 6.1% of Walton households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Walton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Walton next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 2,493rd of 3,133 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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| 53 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Long Beach IN | 1,158 | $122K | 3.8% | 2.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,491 | Pearlington MS | 1,278 | $45K | 22.6% | 6.5% | 1% | D |
| 2,492 | Oquawka IL | 1,065 | $54K | 15.9% | 14.3% | 11% | D |
| 2,493 | Walton IN | 1,024 | $46K | 20.8% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| 2,494 | Pleasanton KS | 1,186 | $50K | 11.0% | 6.9% | 7% | D |
| 2,495 | La Grulla TX | 1,234 | $37K | 19.2% | 9.0% | 0% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Walton, 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 Walton: questions
What is the median household income in Walton?
$45,660 (±$4,179) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Walton?
20.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Walton?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Walton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logansport (26%, 8 mi), Clinton Township (12%, 12 mi), Kokomo (10%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Walton walkable?
Walton is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Walton without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Walton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Walton
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.