Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0About half of Elizabethtown’s working residents commute to Columbus
9 jobs are based in Elizabethtown, against 202 working residents. Hardly any stay in Elizabethtown for work; outside it, Columbus is the main destination (50%, 8 miles). The average commute takes 25 minutes each way (Indiana 24, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Elizabethtown: the gist
More than half of Elizabethtown works in Columbus
102 working residents, 50%, have their main job in Columbus, 7.7 miles away. That’s far more as work in Elizabethtown itself. The commute map ↓
Elizabethtown is a place people come home to
There are 9 jobs based in Elizabethtown, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Elizabethtown has about 230 people in it, 46% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 202 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Elizabethtown’s working residents head each day
Where Elizabethtown clocks in
50% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
How a workday changes Elizabethtown
On a workday 202 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in Elizabethtown on a workday afternoon, 46% fewer than live here.
0.04 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 33% of the jobs in Elizabethtown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elizabethtown, 2014 → 2024: 2 → 9. 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 Elizabethtown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Elizabethtown takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elizabethtown workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 148 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Elizabethtown
About 19% 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.
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 Elizabethtown: questions
What is the median household income in Elizabethtown?
$53,750 (±$28,734) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elizabethtown?
15.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elizabethtown?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elizabethtown work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Elizabethtown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elizabethtown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elizabethtown
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.