Work & commute · Oil

Work & commute in Oil, IN

Most working residents leave Oil for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Tell City (10%), Jasper (10%) and Ferdinand (7%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

78 of 842 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 764 Oil residents head out of town to work, 78 work right here, and 560 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oil.

764live here, work elsewhere

78live and work here

560work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oil goes to work

Tell City19.5 mi away

10%88

Jasper24.5 mi away

10%80

Oil (in town)right here

9%78

Ferdinand16.2 mi away

7%58

Evansville54.4 mi away

4%37

Huntingburg22.7 mi away

4%35

Tobin17.1 mi away

3%24

Troy17.8 mi away

2%18

St. Meinrad14.6 mi away

2%15

Santa Claus20.2 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%395

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

How far

How far Oil commutes

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

12%

49%

13%

26%

12%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oil 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 Oil are

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

Jobs based in Oil

638 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Oil residents hold

842 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+82%

Jobs based in Oil, 2013 → 2023: 351 → 638. 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.