Work & commute · Chalmers

Work & commute in Chalmers, IN

Most working residents leave Chalmers for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Lafayette (20%), Monticello (16%) and West Lafayette (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 275 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 263 Chalmers residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 207 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Chalmers.

263live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

207work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Chalmers goes to work

Lafayette18.2 mi away

20%54

Monticello7.8 mi away

16%44

West Lafayette15.4 mi away

6%17

Chalmers (in town)right here

4%12

Union7.7 mi away

4%11

Honey Creek7.8 mi away

4%11

Delphi11.9 mi away

2%5

Princeton11.5 mi away

2%5

Monon14 mi away

1%4

Logansport27.5 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%108

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Chalmers commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

32%

42%

19%

32%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Chalmers is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Chalmers are

219 jobs are based in Chalmers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Chalmers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Chalmers

219 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Chalmers residents hold

275 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+31%

Jobs based in Chalmers, 2013 → 2023: 167 → 219. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.