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Work & commute · Wills

Work & commute in Wills, IN

Most working residents leave Wills for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are La Porte (21%), South Bend (8%) and Michigan City (7%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
16 of 774 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
38 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
5%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 758 Wills residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 389 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wills.

758live here, work elsewhere
16live and work here
389work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Wills goes to work

WalkertonNew CarlisleValparaisoMishawakaLa PorteMichigan CitySouth BendOliveKankakeeGalenaCenterLincolnPleasantWarrenWillsFish LakeHudson LakeLa PorteSouth BendMichigan CityWalkertonNew CarlisleOliveCenterValparaisoMishawakaWills
1
La Porte8.7 mi away
21%165
2
South Bend14.9 mi away
8%63
3
Michigan City16.6 mi away
7%53
4
Walkerton13.3 mi away
2%18
5
New Carlisle4.6 mi away
2%18
6
Olive5.3 mi away
2%16
7
Wills (in town)right here
2%16
8
Center10.5 mi away
2%12
9
Valparaiso28.3 mi away
1%11
10
Mishawaka20.2 mi away
1%11
Everywhere elseother towns and states
51%391

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

How far

How far Wills commutes

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

32%Under 10 mi
33%10–24 mi
17%25–50 mi
18%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Wills is a commuter town

0.52jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wills are

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

Jobs based in Wills

405 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)29%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)56%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month25%
Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Wills residents hold

774 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)35%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)45%
$1,250 a month or less11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month61%
+32%

Jobs based in Wills, 2013 → 2023: 307 → 405. 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.

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