Numbers

The Jasper County Economic Development Organization has released its 2015 Guide to Jasper County Indiana. It has lots of interesting statistics that are not readily available elsewhere. 

Jasper County, the third largest county in the state in terms of area, is the leading agricultural producing county with a market value of product of $357,402,000.

Kankakee Valley Schools have about twice as many students, 3527, as Rensselaer Central Schools, 1685. In turn, RCS have about twice as many students as Tri-County Schools, 758. Other schools serving the county are West Central Schools with just a few Jasper County students, DeMotte Christian School, Saint Augustine School, and Covenant Christian High School in DeMotte with about 100 students.

Jasper County exports more workers than it imports. Workers go to Lake County (2525), Porter (1015), Illinois (426), Newton (354), and Tippecanoe (239). Workers come from Newton (799), Porter (346), White (298), Lake (289), and Pulaski (229).

The report lists major employers, those with 20 or more employees. Some of the largest are branches of government:

Jasper County Hospital 447

Kankakee Valley Schools 392

Rensselaer Central Schools 254

Jasper County 243

City of Rensselaer 84

Jasper County Public Library 43

Cooperative School Services 42

The largest for-profit employer is Advanced Auto Parts in Remington with 417 employees. Other Remington businesses on the list are:

Impact Forge Omni 146

FBI Buildings, Inc 130

Shilli Transportation 90

Monsanto 71

DuPont 66

Reminton Seed 60

Industrial Pallet 55

Smith Transport 53

That is a total of 1088 (if I added right); the population of Remington is only 1185.

Large for-profit employers in Rensselaer are:

ConAgra 220

Leggett& Platt (formerly Sealy Springs) 180

Donaldsons 170

Talbert Manufacturing 147

Rensselaer Care Center 142

Chief Industries 115

Genova/Rensselaer Plastics 85

Stark Truss 57

Titan Construction 45

White Castle Systems 40

Iroquois Bio-Energy 38

Wilson Industrial Sales 37

National Gypsum 36

American Melt Blown/Filer 33

Wm O Hopkins, Inc 31

Ceres Solutions LLP 20

Employers in the DeMotte-Wheatfield area include:

NIPSCO Schahfer Station 300

Georgia Pacific 90

The Hamstra Group 89

Kankakee Valley Steel (Teft) 20

There are several not-for profit employers (or at least I think they are not-for profit organizations): 

Saint Joseph's College 208

Oak Grove Retirement Village (Demotte) 120

White's Residential Services (formerly Christian Haven) 110

There are also two employers with multiple locations:

Bos Dairy Group 181

Belstra Milling/Farms 94

From just looking at the employers, one would expect more population in the southern part of the county than in the northern part. However, a look the outflow of workers from the county explains why that is not the case.

If you want to know more, go to the web page of the Jasper County Economic Development Organization, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on the picture of the 2015 Guide.