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Northwest Indiana Commuting to Work Data 2003
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Source: Labor Market Information Unit, Indiana Dept. of Workforce Development
            and STATS Indiana, Indiana University Graduate School of Business
NOTE:  All data below is derived from Indiana Dept. of Revenue 2003 Tax Return data.
Region 1 is made up of  Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Jasper, Starke, Pulaski Counties.

The columns below list areas sending workers into Region 1 to work and areas into which
Region 1 workers are traveling to go to work.
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Number of persons who live in Region 1 and work (labor force)...501,932
Number of persons who live in Region 1 and work in Region 1.....386,523
Total number of persons who work in Region 1 (work force).......455,508
                                        
                   Sending workers                      Sending workers
    County/State    Into Region 1       County/State    Out of Region 1
ILLINOIS(STATE)     13,842          ILLINOIS(STATE)     44,734
SAINT JOSEPH         1,153          OUT OF STATE        10,110
OUT OF STATE         1,093          SAINT JOSEPH         3,991
MICHIGAN(STATE)        843          MARSHALL             1,793
WHITE                  551          TIPPECANOE           1,058
HANCOCK                470          MICHIGAN(STATE)        786
MARSHALL               419          ELKHART                599
BENTON                 329          WHITE                  487
TIPPECANOE             257          MONROE                 339
ALLEN                  239          FULTON                 239
FULTON                 231          WISCONSIN(STATE)       228
OHIO(STATE)            181          CASS                   188
WISCONSIN(STATE)       138          DELAWARE               162
CASS                   112          KENTUCKY(STATE)        114
KENTUCKY(STATE)        105          OHIO(STATE)            108
ELKHART                 90          KOSCIUSKO               86
STEUBEN                 62          VIGO                    72
VIGO                    53          ALLEN                   69
KOSCIUSKO               41          BENTON                  67
PENNSYLVANIA(STATE)     39          LAGRANGE                41
CARROLL                 31          VANDERBURGH             33
LAGRANGE                23          PENNSYLVANIA(STATE)     27
POSEY                   20          HAMILTON                25
HAMILTON                18          LAWRENCE                23
MONROE                  16          MADISON                 22
JOHNSON                 13          POSEY                   21
MADISON                 10          MONTGOMERY              19
DUBOIS                  10          MIAMI                   17
CLARK                   10          HOWARD                  14
DELAWARE                 9          CARROLL                 13
HOWARD                   3          JOHNSON                 13
MIAMI                    2          BLACKFORD               11
LAWRENCE                 2          HANCOCK                 11
VANDERBURGH              1          DUBOIS                   6
MONTGOMERY               1          STEUBEN                  6
BLACKFORD                0          CLARK                    4
TOTAL               20,417          TOTAL               65,536