Photo: Missvain · CC BY 4.0How Bennetts Switch works: jobs, income and commuting
Working residents average 24 minutes each way, about the same as across Indiana. Hardly any work in Bennetts Switch itself; outside it, Kokomo draws the most (20%, 8 miles). The Census job records count 15 working residents of Bennetts Switch and no jobs based in it.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Bennetts Switch
On a workday 15 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Bennetts Switch on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.00 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.
The places Bennetts Switch commutes to
Where Bennetts Switch clocks in
13% 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.
How long Bennetts Switch spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bennetts Switch workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
How many miles Bennetts Switch commutes
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.
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 Bennetts Switch: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bennetts Switch?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bennetts Switch?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bennetts Switch work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kokomo (20%, 8 mi), Peru (13%, 12 mi), Logansport (13%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bennetts Switch without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bennetts Switch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bennetts Switch
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.