Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWhere English earns its living
213 jobs are based in English, against 232 working residents. Only 4% work in English itself; outside it, Jasper draws the most (9%, 26 miles). The trip to work takes 29 minutes on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: English in brief
Fewer jobs are based in English than ten years ago
Jobs counted in English fell from 606 in 2014 to 213 in 2024, −65%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
English’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside English is Jasper, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (22) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 232 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The kinds of work in English
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in English, 2014 → 2024: 606 → 213. 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 English’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far English goes to work
About 30% 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.
The daily flow of workers through English
On a workday 223 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 204 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 (0.92 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of English: the destinations
Where English clocks in
9% 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.
A commute of about 29 minutes in English
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of English workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 255 commuters (the 7% 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.
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 English: questions
What is the median household income in English?
$35,991 (±$11,097) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in English?
49.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from English?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in English work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jasper (9%, 26 mi), Indianapolis (6%, 101 mi), French Lick (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around English 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 English, from the people who make the trip.
More of English
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.