Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 3.0Wheatfield has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers; Indiana has 11%. 129 jobs are based in Wheatfield, against 368 working residents. Hardly any work in Wheatfield itself; outside it, DeMotte draws the most (6%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Wheatfield apart
How long Wheatfield spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wheatfield workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 376 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who leaves Wheatfield for work, and who comes in
On a workday 366 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 127 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Wheatfield on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Out of Wheatfield to work: where people go
Where Wheatfield clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Wheatfield: what the 129 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wheatfield, 2013 → 2023: 125 → 129. 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 Wheatfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Wheatfield commutes less than 29 miles
About 28% 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 Wheatfield: questions
What is the median household income in Wheatfield?
$73,375 (±$16,844) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wheatfield?
14.3%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wheatfield?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wheatfield work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeMotte (6%, 7 mi), Valparaiso (6%, 20 mi), Rensselaer (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wheatfield 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 Wheatfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wheatfield
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.