Fayette County Courthouse · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Connersville trail those of 89% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Connersville are C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Poverty touches 23.4% of residents, against 12.3% across Indiana. About one in four work in Connersville; the top destination outside it is Richmond (10%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Connersville: the gist
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Connersville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Connersville is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #543 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Connersville’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Connersville could be anywhere from D to C.
Connersville by day and by night
On a workday 4,006 residents head out to work, 1,543 work right here, and 3,528 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Connersville to work: where people go
Where Connersville clocks in
9% of workers
3% 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 Connersville’s employers do
5,071 jobs are based in Connersville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Connersville, 2013 → 2023: 5,394 → 5,071. 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 Connersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Connersville spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Connersville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,103 commuters (the 6% 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.
Half of Connersville commutes less than 21 miles
About 27% 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.
Connersville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Connersville is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #86 of 593 in Indiana. Both inputs place Connersville 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 5,423 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). 11.7% of Connersville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Connersville’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,259th of 2,526: where Connersville ranks among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Whitestown IN | 15,767 | $124K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | McCordsville IN | 13,094 | $111K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Brown Township IN | 15,523 | $140K | 2.3% | 2.8% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,257 | Endicott NY | 13,068 | $47K | 29.0% | 5.8% | 14% | C− |
| 2,258 | Pomfret NY | 12,605 | $58K | 22.6% | 4.8% | 19% | C− |
| 2,259 | Connersville IN | 13,406 | $49K | 23.4% | 3.9% | 28% | C− |
| 2,260 | Mercedes TX | 17,915 | $47K | 28.6% | 6.8% | 12% | C− |
| 2,261 | Keokuk IA | 9,510 | $53K | 18.3% | 4.9% | 45% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Connersville, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Connersville: questions
What is the median household income in Connersville?
$48,854 (±$4,052) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Connersville?
23.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Connersville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Connersville work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond (10%, 18 mi), Indianapolis (9%, 54 mi), Rushville (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Connersville walkable?
Connersville is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Connersville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Connersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Connersville
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.