Work & commute · Fishers

Work & commute in Fishers, IN

Most working residents leave Fishers for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Center (16%), Washington (10%) and Carmel (10%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

6,845 of 49,268 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

26%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 42,423 Fishers residents head out of town to work, 6,845 work right here, and 32,810 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fishers.

42,423live here, work elsewhere

6,845live and work here

32,810work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fishers goes to work

Center15.7 mi away

16%8,094

Fishers (in town)right here

14%6,845

Washington11 mi away

10%4,945

Carmel9.5 mi away

10%4,894

Lawrence6.6 mi away

7%3,661

Noblesville5.5 mi away

5%2,571

Pike16.9 mi away

5%2,280

Warren13.2 mi away

3%1,675

Wayne20.4 mi away

2%1,055

Lawrence6.7 mi away

2%873

Everywhere elseother towns and states

25%12,375

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Fishers commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

43%

42%

10%

43%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fishers is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fishers are

39,655 jobs are based in Fishers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fishers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fishers

39,655 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Fishers residents hold

49,268 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+38%

Jobs based in Fishers, 2013 → 2023: 28,700 → 39,655. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.