The employers, ranked at the strength of the record

CUR-3 MIXED · THE BANKED BUSINESSES RECORD PLUS THIS DIG'S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ranked by the employment figures the record actually carries, the town's employer table is short and industrial. First by every measure reached: Polygon Company, the composites manufacturer of 1949 — about 230 employees in the current commercial profiles, hiring across production, pultrusion, and machining roles through 2026, and the only employer in town whose payroll is counted in the hundreds. Second: the John Glenn School Corporation, the town's public employer of teachers and staff across the Walkerton-seated schools — its payroll uncounted in the sources reached, its rank by institutional weight rather than a printed figure. Behind them, the town's mid-size tier: Hiler Industries, the family firm behind the town's philanthropy; the Town of Walkerton itself (whose public-works directorship the state's audit schedule names — Jason Cox held it through the 2016–2019 audit period); and 1st Source Bank's Walkerton branch, the town's sole bank office, at 411 Illinois Street. The ranking prints with its seams showing: only Polygon carries a reached headcount, no WARN-notice event names a Walkerton employer in the record reached, and a census-of-employment table at full strength stands as the residue, with the state's employer data and the businesses record of this build as its settlers.

Principal sources: PitchBook (Polygon, ~230 employees, 2026); the banked businesses record of this build (lifted, not repeated); State Board of Accounts, Town of Walkerton audit 2016–2018 (Schedule of Officials).