Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Dillsboro works elsewhere
There are 294 jobs in Dillsboro, against 653 working residents. Dillsboro grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Dillsboro
Jobs & income in Dillsboro: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Dillsboro is better than 9% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Dillsboro’s grade up (14.9%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($48,810, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Dillsboro’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Dillsboro could be anywhere from D− to C.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Dillsboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dillsboro workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 680 commuters (the 3% 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.
Dillsboro quiets down on a workday
On a workday 619 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 260 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Dillsboro on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
11% of working residents work in Lawrenceburg
Where Dillsboro clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Most jobs in Dillsboro are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dillsboro, 2013 → 2023: 310 → 294. 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 Dillsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Dillsboro works
About 21% 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.
Few in Dillsboro walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dillsboro is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 703 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). 5.4% of Dillsboro households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Dillsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dillsboro places 4,954th of 5,877 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,952 | Adwolf VA | 1,046 | $44K | 15.0% | 0.0% | 1% | D |
| 4,953 | Hansen ID | 1,109 | $50K | 29.8% | 1.1% | 3% | D |
| 4,954 | Dillsboro IN | 1,375 | $49K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 5% | D |
| 4,955 | Sebewaing MI | 1,678 | $48K | 13.1% | 6.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,956 | Sherburn MN | 1,040 | $60K | 22.7% | 9.1% | 9% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Dillsboro, 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 Dillsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Dillsboro?
$48,810 (±$10,141) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dillsboro?
14.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dillsboro?
33 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dillsboro work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lawrenceburg (11%, 11 mi), Cincinnati (6%, 30 mi), Indianapolis (5%, 78 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dillsboro walkable?
Dillsboro is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dillsboro without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dillsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dillsboro
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.