Photo: Stumbledwalker · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Georgetown Township commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Georgetown Township A; getting around on foot earns it C−. Georgetown Township has 1,320 jobs, against 5,435 working residents. Measured by household income, Georgetown Township is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Georgetown Township: the figures worth knowing
Georgetown Township is a place people come home to
There are 1,320 jobs based in Georgetown Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Georgetown Township has about 7,500 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Georgetown Township
19% of Georgetown Township workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Time on the road ↓
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.
What’s behind Georgetown Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Georgetown Township is better than 88% of U.S. towns, #62 of 593 in Indiana. The poverty rate is its strongest input (3.7%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Georgetown Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Who leaves Georgetown Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 5,244 residents head out to work, 191 work right here, and 1,129 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,500 people are in Georgetown Township on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
About 27 minutes each way for Georgetown Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Georgetown Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,396 commuters (the 19% 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.
18% of working residents work in New Albany
Where Georgetown Township clocks in
18% of workers
8% 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 Georgetown Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Georgetown Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,451 → 1,320. 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 Georgetown Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Georgetown Township works
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.
For most of Georgetown Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Georgetown Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns, #454 of 593 in Indiana. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Indiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,426 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Georgetown Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Georgetown Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Georgetown Township ranks: 527th of 2,695 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000
| # | 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 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Whitestown IN | 15,767 | $124K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | McCordsville IN | 13,094 | $111K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 125 | Brown Township IN | 15,523 | $140K | 2.3% | 2.8% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 525 | Sanger TX | 10,238 | $91K | 7.4% | 1.4% | 8% | A |
| 526 | Lumberton TX | 14,123 | $108K | 3.7% | 2.5% | 12% | A |
| 527 | Georgetown Township IN | 11,606 | $108K | 3.7% | 3.6% | 4% | A |
| 528 | Cedar Hills OR | 8,388 | $106K | 2.3% | 5.0% | 2% | A |
| 529 | Lake Barcroft VA | 10,973 | $141K | 5.6% | 5.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Georgetown Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Work in the towns next to Georgetown Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Georgetown Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown Township | – | A | C− | 27 min | $108,287 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | A | D− | 28 min | $95,686 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | A | D− | 27 min | $91,477 |
| Lafayette Township | under 2% | A | D | 27 min | $118,380 |
| Greenville Township | under 2% | A | D | 32 min | $121,435 |
| New Albany Township | under 2% | B− | B | 20 min | $65,344 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | B | C− | 33 min | $85,645 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Georgetown Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Georgetown Township: questions
What is the median household income in Georgetown Township?
$108,287 (±$7,726) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Georgetown Township?
3.7%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Georgetown Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Georgetown Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Albany (18%, 7 mi), Louisville (10%, 18 mi), Jeffersonville (8%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Georgetown Township walkable?
Georgetown Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Georgetown Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Georgetown Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Georgetown Township
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.