Photo: ONUnicorn · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Warren Park have lower incomes than those in 94% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 19% of workers, where Indiana as a whole has 11%. Below the poverty line: 19.2% of residents, where Indiana as a whole has 12.3%. The two grades for Warren Park are C for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Warren Park, in brief
More than half of Warren Park works in Indianapolis
409 working residents, 64%, have their main job in Indianapolis, 5 miles away. That’s far more as work in Warren Park itself. The commute map ↓
A lot of Warren Park works from home
19% of Warren Park workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Time on the road ↓
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 638 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Warren Park’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Warren Park is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Warren Park’s grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($42,906, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.9%) is left out: Warren Park’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, Warren Park could be anywhere from C to B.
64% of working residents work in Indianapolis
Where Warren Park clocks in
64% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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 22 minutes from Warren Park
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warren Park workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 535 commuters (the 19% 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 a workday changes Warren Park
On a workday 637 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 298 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Warren Park on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.47 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.
The 299 jobs based in Warren Park
299 jobs are based in Warren Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warren Park, 2013 → 2023: 320 → 299. 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 Warren Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Warren Park
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.
Getting around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 5.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 659 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 12.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 95% 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). 23.0% of Warren Park households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Warren Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Warren Park ranks: 2,905th of 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 7 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 97 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 107 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
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| 2,903 | Columbia Township PA | 1,161 | $70K | 7.7% | 0.6% | 1% | C |
| 2,904 | Franklin VT | 1,425 | $80K | 8.6% | 3.2% | 2% | C |
| 2,905 | Warren Park IN | 1,509 | $43K | 19.2% | 9.9% | <1% | C |
| 2,906 | Ellis KS | 1,917 | $73K | 21.2% | 2.5% | 15% | C |
| 2,907 | Lakefield MN | 1,697 | $72K | 10.5% | 0.5% | 21% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Warren Park, 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 Warren Park: questions
What is the median household income in Warren Park?
$42,906 (±$6,076) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warren Park?
19.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warren Park?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warren Park work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Indianapolis (64%, 5 mi), Carmel (4%, 14 mi), Lawrence (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warren Park walkable?
Warren Park is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warren Park without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 23% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warren Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warren Park
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.