Work & commute · Silver Creek

Work & commute in Silver Creek, IN

Most working residents leave Silver Creek for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Jeffersonville (13%), New Albany (13%) and Clarksville (6%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

543 of 6,885 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,342 Silver Creek residents head out of town to work, 543 work right here, and 4,183 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Silver Creek.

6,342live here, work elsewhere

543live and work here

4,183work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Silver Creek goes to work

Jeffersonville5.3 mi away

13%879

New Albany6.6 mi away

13%864

Clarksville5 mi away

6%432

Sellersburg0.8 mi away

5%344

Jeffersontown, KY16.7 mi away

2%131

Utica5 mi away

2%128

Washington104.4 mi away

2%127

Silver Creek (in town)right here

2%123

Charlestown5.5 mi away

1%90

Watterson Park, KY14.4 mi away

1%83

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%3,684

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

How far

How far Silver Creek commutes

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

58%

13%

25%

58%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Silver Creek is a commuter town

0.69jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Silver Creek are

4,726 jobs are based in Silver Creek. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Silver Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Silver Creek

4,726 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Silver Creek residents hold

6,885 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+10%

Jobs based in Silver Creek, 2013 → 2023: 4,310 → 4,726. 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.