Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Brown Township commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 138 jobs in Brown Township; 720 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Brown Township are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Brown Township is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Brown Township
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Brown Township
On income, poverty and job access, Brown Township is better than 60% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Brown Township’s grade up ($105,208, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (8.2%) is left out: Brown Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brown Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
How a workday changes Brown Township
On a workday 712 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 130 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Brown Township on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2024, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Versailles
Where Brown Township clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Brown Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brown Township, 2014 → 2024: 119 → 138. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brown Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Brown Township spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brown Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 549 commuters (the 9% 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.
Miles to work from Brown Township
About 23% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Brown Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brown Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 601 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). 1.5% of Brown Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brown Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Brown Township ranks: 1,727th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
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| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 171 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,725 | Perry LA | 1,424 | $82K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,726 | Wheatland MT | 1,661 | $123K | 12.9% | 0.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,727 | Brown Township IN | 1,746 | $105K | 5.3% | 8.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,728 | Graham Township IN | 1,585 | $78K | 3.0% | 6.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,729 | Muddy Creek Township PA | 2,168 | $83K | 5.0% | 6.1% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Brown Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Brown Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brown Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Township | – | B | C+ | 24 min | $105,208 |
| Johnson Township | under 2% | C+ | B | 25 min | $71,204 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | B | C | 30 min | $93,003 |
| Caesar Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Shelby Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Pleasant Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 37 min | $105,400 |
| Shelby Township | under 2% | C− | D− | 37 min | $57,500 |
| Pike Township | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Clay Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 35 min | $63,295 |
Same-state neighbors only. Caesar Creek Township and Pike Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Shelby Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brown Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Brown Township: questions
What is the median household income in Brown Township?
$105,208 (±$30,850) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brown Township?
5.3%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brown Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brown Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Versailles (8%, 7 mi), Batesville (6%, 23 mi), Milan (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Brown Township walkable?
Brown Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brown Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brown Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brown Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.