Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Wolcottville works elsewhere
Employers in Wolcottville report 170 jobs; 452 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Wolcottville C−; getting around on foot earns it C. Measured by household income, Wolcottville is behind 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Wolcottville in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Wolcottville
On income, poverty and job access, Wolcottville is better than 16% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Wolcottville’s grade up (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($53,625, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.5%) is left out: Wolcottville’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, Wolcottville could be anywhere from D to C.
About 24 minutes to work from Wolcottville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wolcottville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 500 commuters (the 1% 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.
Wolcottville by day and by night
On a workday 449 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 167 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Wolcottville on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Kendallville
Where Wolcottville clocks in
13% 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.
What Wolcottville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wolcottville, 2014 → 2024: 104 → 170. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wolcottville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wolcottville
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Wolcottville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wolcottville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wolcottville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 507 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). 11.0% of Wolcottville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wolcottville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wolcottville places 2,256th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 4% | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 2,254 | Dudley Township KS | 1,350 | $52K | 8.9% | 2.7% | 21% | C− |
| 2,255 | Farmersburg IN | 1,067 | $54K | 12.7% | 2.4% | 1% | C− |
| 2,256 | Wolcottville IN | 1,052 | $54K | 17.4% | 6.5% | 1% | C− |
| 2,257 | Coldwater MS | 1,326 | $44K | 33.7% | 5.3% | 2% | C− |
| 2,258 | Advance MO | 1,323 | $60K | 14.0% | 0.7% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Wolcottville, 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 2024, 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 Wolcottville: questions
What is the median household income in Wolcottville?
$53,625 (±$11,254) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wolcottville?
17.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wolcottville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wolcottville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kendallville (13%, 8 mi), Fort Wayne (12%, 32 mi), Elkhart (5%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wolcottville walkable?
Wolcottville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wolcottville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wolcottville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wolcottville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.