Work & commute · Penn

Work & commute in Penn, IN

Most working residents leave Penn for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Crawfordsville (9%), Terre Haute (6%) and Union (6%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 231 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 218 Penn residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 179 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Penn.

218live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

179work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Penn goes to work

Crawfordsville23.9 mi away

9%20

Terre Haute27 mi away

6%14

Union13.2 mi away

6%14

Rockville5.9 mi away

5%11

Washington59.9 mi away

4%9

Bloomingdale1.6 mi away

3%8

Greencastle26.6 mi away

3%6

Center60.3 mi away

3%6

Washington5 mi away

3%6

Marshall4.5 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%132

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

How far

How far Penn commutes

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

22%

33%

13%

32%

22%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Penn is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Penn are

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

Jobs based in Penn

192 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)44%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Penn residents hold

231 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−18%

Jobs based in Penn, 2013 → 2023: 234 → 192. 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.