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Work & commute in Jonesville · A commuter town

100% of Jonesville’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Jonesville for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Columbus (55%), Seymour (7%) and Franklin (3%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 105 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
26 min
More than IN (24 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than IN (11%)
Jobs based here
65
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Jonesville?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

55% of working residents work in Columbus

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

JonesvilleElizabethtownWestportHanoverAustin: 1 residents work here (1%)Monticello: 1 residents work here (1%)North Vernon: 2 residents work here (2%)Madison: 1 residents work here (1%)Seymour: 7 residents work here (7%)Franklin: 3 residents work here (3%)GreenwoodColumbus: 58 residents work here (55%)Carmel: 2 residents work here (2%)Rock CreekColumbus: 2 residents work here (2%)HarrisonGermanWarren: 2 residents work here (2%)Cordry Sweetwater LakesColumbusSeymourFranklinNorth VernonCarmelColumbusJonesville
1
Columbus10.4 mi away
55%58
2
Seymour7.8 mi away
7%7
3
Franklin31.3 mi away
3%3
4
North Vernon14.2 mi away
2%2
5
Carmel64.1 mi away
2%2
6
Columbus10.3 mi away
2%2
7
Warren49.9 mi away
2%2
8
Austin22.5 mi away
1%1
9
Monticello125.4 mi away
1%1
10
Madison33.6 mi away
1%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
25%26
The top trips

Where Jonesville clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Jonesville quiets down on a workday

On a workday 105 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 65 people come in from elsewhere.

105live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
65work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night130
Workday89
130live here− 110head out to work+ 65come in to work= 89on a workday

About 89 people are in Jonesville on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.62jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.62 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Jonesville commutes less than 11 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miColumbus: 55% · 10.4 miSeymour: 7% · 7.8 miFranklin: 3% · 31.3 miNorth Vernon: 2% · 14.2 miCarmel: 2% · 64.1 miColumbus: 2% · 10.3 miWarren: 2% · 49.9 miAustin: 1% · 22.5 miMonticello: 1% · 125.4 miMadison: 1% · 33.6 miColumbus 55%Seymour 7%Franklin 3%North Vernon 2%Carmel 2%Jonesville
JonesvilleTop destinations (size = commuters)
27%Under 10 mi28 residents
44%10–24 mi46 residents
10%25–50 mi11 residents
19%Over 50 mi20 residents

About 19% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Jonesville makes things: 74% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in JonesvilleJobs Jonesville residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms74%35%
Trade, transport & utilities12%21%
Services: health, schools, offices14%44%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less8%16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month52%20%
Over $3,333 a month40%64%

Who does it

29 or younger20%18%
30 to 5448%60%
55 and older32%22%
+132%

Jobs based in Jonesville, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 65. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

About 26 minutes each way, about the IN average

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
196 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Jonesville26 min
Indiana24 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

of Jonesville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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