Fort Wayne

City Commute Profile

Fort Wayne, IN

Where Fort Wayne’s 124,920 resident workers go each day — 60.3% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Indianapolis city (balance).

IndianaLODES 2023 data
69
Commute Score

69 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Fort Wayne at a glance
Employed Residents
124,920
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
20.7mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
60.3%
Share working within the area
Work from home
9.0%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Indianapolis city (balance)
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Fort Wayne proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Fort Wayne commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Fort Wayne

124,920 commutes, one dot at a time

Fort Wayne

Where 124,920 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Fort Wayne, by worker count.

1Fort Wayne0.0 mi75,338
2Indianapolis city (balance)104.1 mi4,731
3New Haven6.0 mi3,752
4Auburn19.9 mi1,031
5Carmel93.5 mi771
6Bluffton23.9 mi767
7Warsaw38.6 mi642
8Huntington23.4 mi634

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Fort Wayne.

1Fort Wayne0.0 mi75,338
2New Haven6.0 mi4,376
3Huntertown9.4 mi3,915
4Indianapolis city (balance)104.1 mi2,766
5Huntington23.4 mi1,492
6Auburn19.9 mi1,473
7Columbia City19.1 mi1,314
8Decatur20.7 mi999

Top industries

The sectors that employ Fort Wayne’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance23.7%
RTRetail Trade12.3%
AFAccommodation and Food Services9.4%
MFManufacturing9.1%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.9%
EDEducational Services5.7%
FIFinance and Insurance5.3%
COConstruction4.8%
WSWholesale Trade4.7%

Fort Wayne city profile

Who lives in Fort Wayne — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
268,589
Median age
35.0yrs
Median household income
$61,422
Median home value
$188,900
Median gross rent
$999/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
29.0%
Poverty rate
16.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Fort Wayne

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

11 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps100%
8 Gbps1%
See all internet providers in Fort Wayne

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).