Bringhurst has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
22 jobs are based in Bringhurst; 91 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Bringhurst for work; outside it, Lafayette is the main destination (18%, 20 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 11% across Indiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Bringhurst for work, and who comes in
On a workday 91 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 29 people are in Bringhurst on a workday afternoon, 70% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Bringhurst goes to work
Where Bringhurst clocks in
12% of workers
10% 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 Bringhurst’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bringhurst, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 22. 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 Bringhurst’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Bringhurst: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bringhurst workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 0% 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.
Bringhurst’s commute, mile by mile
About 22% 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.
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 Bringhurst: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bringhurst?
4.1%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bringhurst?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bringhurst work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (18%, 20 mi), Flora (12%, 1 mi), Deer Creek Township (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bringhurst 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 Bringhurst, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bringhurst
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.