Employers, ranked at the strength the record states

The ranking is a ranking of seats, not of invented headcounts: only three employers carry any published size at all. First, Hoosier Racing Tire — the largest private employer seated in the town, its headquarters and gate the town's industrial fact; its published size is an Indiana-wide company figure, "nearly 500 in Indiana" at the banked carriers' strength, with the Lakeville/Plymouth split expressly unreached (production stands in Plymouth; the headquarters, engineering, and warehousing presence here is the larger share by every narrative carrier, and no carrier numbers it). Second, the school corporation — LaVille Community Schools (Union-North United until the 8 June 2026 rename), the largest public employer touching the town, operating the junior–senior high school on US 31 and, across the county line, the elementary; no staff count for the corporation stands in any carrier reached, and none is estimated here. Third, the Working Person's Store — nearly 80 employees at its 2005–06 growth carriers' strength, founded and seated in Lakeville in 1995, its mature headquarters later in South Bend and its post-2015 course the tested file's named gap. Below these, the town's employment is listing-size: the town government itself, the Palmer Community Complex's tenants, the diner, the bar, the auto trade on SR 931, the Dollar General — none carrying a published count. The state workforce series the audit names as settler does not publish at town size for a place of 879: Indiana's covered-employment data runs to county and ZIP, and the ZIP register would seat Plymouth-side and township employers in the same cell. The residue stands named: company-stated Lakeville-site employment for Hoosier, and a corporation staff count from the school district's own reports — either would let the first two ranks carry numbers; until one lands, the ranking prints as seats.

Principal sources: the banked Hoosier Racing Tire (the Indiana figure and the unreached split); this history lk-tst-dotcom (the Working Person's Store's employment at its carriers); Schools (the corporation's frame); this history lk-civ-nonprofits (the 46536 register's shape); Indiana workforce-data practice as stated.