Photo: Nyttend · Public domainFort Wayne draws more than half of Wayne Township’s working residents
Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Wayne Township C−; getting around on foot earns it A. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 2.5 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 1.9 in Fort Wayne.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wayne Township at work: what stands out
More than half of Wayne Township works in Fort Wayne
27,681 working residents, 60%, have their main job in Fort Wayne, 2.8 miles away. That’s twice as many as work in Wayne Township itself. The commute map ↓
Wayne Township trades workers with the towns around it
Wayne Township has about as many jobs (54,955) as working residents (45,935), but they are mostly different people: 33,721 residents leave for work each day while 42,741 people come in. Only 22% of the jobs in Wayne Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Most Wayne Township residents work close to home
68% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. 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.
Why Wayne Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wayne Township is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #532 of 593 in Indiana. Job access by car holds Wayne Township’s grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wayne Township stays C−.
Where people from Wayne Township work
Where Wayne Township clocks in
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.
Who leaves Wayne Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 33,721 residents head out to work, 12,214 work right here, and 42,741 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 (1.20 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.
How far Wayne Township’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
The 54,955 jobs based in Wayne Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wayne Township, 2013 → 2023: 50,841 → 54,955. 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 Wayne Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Wayne Township, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wayne Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 46,623 commuters (the 8% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Wayne Township
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wayne Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #15 of 593 in Indiana. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.9% 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 50,603 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 93% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 59% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 72% 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). 10.7% of Wayne Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Wayne Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
These are town averages; neighborhoods differ.
U.S. towns of 78,000 to 151,000, and where Wayne Township sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plymouth MN | 78,942 | $137K | 4.3% | 2.3% | 12% | A+ |
| 3 | South Jordan UT | 87,614 | $134K | 3.7% | 2.4% | 10% | A+ |
| 4 | Carmel IN | 105,634 | $142K | 3.9% | 2.7% | 23% | A+ |
| 5 | Clay Township IN | 104,932 | $142K | 3.9% | 2.7% | 23% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Fishers IN | 104,812 | $130K | 4.0% | 2.8% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 371 | Hartford CT | 121,981 | $46K | 26.3% | 10.7% | 27% | C− |
| 372 | Calumet Township IN | 89,730 | $47K | 27.4% | 8.8% | 17% | C− |
| 373 | Wayne Township IN | 111,761 | $49K | 23.2% | 8.1% | 27% | C− |
| 374 | Syracuse NY | 144,896 | $48K | 28.8% | 7.7% | 43% | C− |
| 375 | Dayton OH | 136,688 | $45K | 26.9% | 9.0% | 27% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 382 | Flint MI | 79,306 | $38K | 34.1% | 14.8% | 20% | 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 Wayne Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Wayne Township
The biggest share goes to Aboite Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wayne Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Township | – | C− | A | 21 min | $49,084 |
| Adams Township | under 1% | C | B+ | 25 min | $60,041 |
| Washington Township | under 1% | B | A− | 21 min | $67,489 |
| Aboite Township | 3% | A | B− | 23 min | $108,350 |
| Pleasant Township | 1% | B+ | D | 23 min | $75,678 |
| St. Joseph Township | under 1% | B | B | 22 min | $72,566 |
| Lafayette Township | 2% | A+ | D− | 19 min | $119,038 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wayne Township’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 Wayne Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wayne Township?
$49,084 (±$2,035) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wayne Township?
23.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wayne Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wayne Township work?
27% work in town.
Is Wayne Township walkable?
Wayne Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wayne Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 59% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wayne Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wayne Township
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.