Work & commute · Speedway

Work & commute in Speedway, IN

Most working residents leave Speedway for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Center (18%), Wayne (11%) and Pike (9%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

475 of 6,648 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,173 Speedway residents head out of town to work, 475 work right here, and 8,806 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Speedway.

6,173live here, work elsewhere

475live and work here

8,806work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Speedway goes to work

Center5.9 mi away

18%1,221

Wayne1.7 mi away

11%746

Pike5.8 mi away

9%600

Speedway (in town)right here

7%475

Plainfield9.6 mi away

7%467

Washington8 mi away

6%397

Carmel13 mi away

4%234

Warren12.3 mi away

3%206

Brownsburg7.9 mi away

3%176

Perry9.4 mi away

2%161

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%1,965

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

How far

How far Speedway commutes

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

65%

24%

65%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Speedway is balanced between jobs and homes

1.40jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Speedway are

9,281 jobs are based in Speedway. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Speedway’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Speedway

9,281 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)49%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Speedway residents hold

6,648 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+19%

Jobs based in Speedway, 2013 → 2023: 7,829 → 9,281. 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.