Work & commute · Jennings

Work & commute in Jennings, IN

Most working residents leave Jennings for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Scottsburg (16%), Crothersville (6%) and Austin (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

350 of 2,316 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,966 Jennings residents head out of town to work, 350 work right here, and 1,407 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Jennings.

1,966live here, work elsewhere

350live and work here

1,407work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Jennings goes to work

Scottsburg5.4 mi away

16%376

Jennings (in town)right here

10%231

Crothersville3.9 mi away

6%150

Austin2.2 mi away

5%119

New Albany31.2 mi away

5%106

Jeffersonville29.8 mi away

4%92

Seymour14 mi away

3%75

Washington79.4 mi away

2%54

Madison20.7 mi away

2%51

Clarksville30.4 mi away

2%39

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%1,023

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

How far

How far Jennings commutes

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

43%

13%

19%

25%

43%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Jennings is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Jennings are

1,757 jobs are based in Jennings. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Jennings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Jennings

1,757 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)71%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)19%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month73%

Jobs Jennings residents hold

2,316 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+15%

Jobs based in Jennings, 2013 → 2023: 1,525 → 1,757. 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.