Work & commute · Heritage Lake

Work & commute in Heritage Lake, IN

Most working residents leave Heritage Lake for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Center (10%), Danville (9%) and Greencastle (7%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34 of 1,634 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 1,600 Heritage Lake residents head out of town to work, 34 work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Heritage Lake.

1,600live here, work elsewhere

34live and work here

42work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Heritage Lake goes to work

Center30.3 mi away

10%167

Danville11.4 mi away

9%143

Greencastle9.9 mi away

7%120

Wayne23.7 mi away

7%117

Pike25.3 mi away

5%83

Plainfield18 mi away

5%75

Avon16.7 mi away

4%71

Brownsburg18.3 mi away

3%41

Heritage Lake (in town)right here

2%34

Perry29.6 mi away

2%32

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%751

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

How far

How far Heritage Lake commutes

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

16%

40%

35%

16%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

35%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Heritage Lake is a commuter town

0.05jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.05 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Heritage Lake are

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

Jobs based in Heritage Lake

76 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Heritage Lake residents hold

1,634 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+124%

Jobs based in Heritage Lake, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 76. 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.