Corydon Historic District · Photo: Bedford at English Wikipedia · Public domainThere are 1.9 jobs in Corydon for every working resident, and 2,476 people commute in
Corydon has 2,674 jobs for 1,433 working residents. The two grades for Corydon are B for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Measured by household income, Corydon is behind 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Corydon: the gist
Corydon is where the jobs are
Corydon has 2,674 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Corydon
59% of Corydon residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 40% of the jobs based in Corydon pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 86% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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.
How Corydon earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Corydon is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #259 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Corydon’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($56,513, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Corydon could be anywhere from C to A.
In and out of Corydon on a workday
On a workday 1,235 residents head out to work and 198 work right here.
About 4,400 people are in Corydon on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
1.9 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.
What Corydon’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Corydon, 2013 → 2023: 2,472 → 2,674. 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.
Who travels to work in Corydon, and from where
Where Corydon clocks in
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.
From Corydon, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Corydon workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,159 commuters (the 11% 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 far it is to work from Corydon
About 20% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Corydon
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Corydon is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #51 of 593 in Indiana. 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 1,302 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). 8.4% of Corydon households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Corydon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Corydon is 1,832nd of 4,698 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Milan Township IN | 4,066 | $120K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,830 | South Annville Township PA | 3,517 | $100K | 10.2% | 6.4% | 6% | B |
| 1,831 | Lake Summerset IL | 2,364 | $108K | 3.0% | 15.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,832 | Corydon IN | 3,196 | $57K | 8.8% | 2.3% | 14% | B |
| 1,833 | Boyd TX | 2,546 | $69K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 6% | B |
| 1,834 | Onondaga Township MI | 3,086 | $91K | 2.5% | 10.1% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 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 Corydon: questions
What is the median household income in Corydon?
$56,513 (±$17,297) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Corydon?
8.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Corydon?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Corydon work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrison Township (13%, 2 mi), New Albany (10%, 18 mi), Louisville (7%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Corydon walkable?
Corydon is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Corydon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% 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.