Photo: Art davis · CC BY-SA 4.0Corydon has lower household incomes than 86% of U.S. towns
About one in four stay in Corydon for work; outside it, Des Moines is the main destination (5%, 58 miles). Below the poverty line: 11.5% of residents, next to 11.1% across Iowa. Corydon grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Corydon, in brief
Corydon is where the jobs are
Corydon has 1,014 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 673 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Corydon’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Corydon is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Corydon’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Corydon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Corydon could be anywhere from D to C.
How many people are in Corydon by day
On a workday 475 residents head out to work, 198 work right here, and 816 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Corydon on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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 Corydon goes to work
About 38% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who travels to work in Corydon, and from where
Where Corydon clocks in
4% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What the 1,014 jobs in Corydon are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Corydon, 2013 → 2023: 884 → 1,014. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Corydon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Corydon, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Corydon workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 616 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Iowa: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
In Corydon, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Corydon is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Corydon near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 642 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Corydon households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Corydon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Corydon next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 4,659th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Van Meter IA | 1,978 | $135K | 2.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Walford IA | 1,359 | $129K | 1.1% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Granger IA | 2,179 | $112K | 3.4% | 2.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,657 | Eureka Springs AR | 2,258 | $38K | 12.2% | 3.3% | 39% | D |
| 4,658 | Deer Trail CO | 1,755 | $74K | 18.8% | 0.6% | 2% | D |
| 4,659 | Corydon IA | 1,711 | $51K | 11.5% | 5.6% | 29% | D |
| 4,660 | Oakland MD | 1,808 | $53K | 17.5% | 3.2% | 28% | D |
| 4,661 | Sanilac Township MI | 2,281 | $57K | 11.6% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Corydon, the top three, the last and three more from Iowa.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Corydon: questions
What is the median household income in Corydon?
$51,250 (±$11,209) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Corydon?
11.5%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Corydon?
18 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Corydon work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Des Moines (5%, 58 mi), Chariton (4%, 18 mi), West Des Moines (4%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Corydon walkable?
Corydon is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Corydon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Corydon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Corydon
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.