Photo: Jon Konrath from Oakland, USA · CC BY 2.0A job hub: Goshen has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 20,490 people come in to work
Employers in Goshen report 25,647 jobs for 14,178 working residents. For jobs and income Goshen is better than 39% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−). Household incomes here are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Goshen, in brief
Goshen is where the jobs are
Goshen has 25,647 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Goshen makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Goshen are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Goshen residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 45%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Goshen are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Indiana. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Indiana worker. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Goshen’s grade explained
Job access by car holds Goshen’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Goshen could be anywhere from C to B.
A workday in Goshen: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 9,021 residents head out to work and 5,157 work right here.
About 46,000 people are in Goshen on a workday afternoon, 33% more 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.
Making and building: 43% of jobs based in Goshen
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goshen, 2013 → 2023: 26,457 → 25,647. 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 Goshen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Goshen spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Goshen workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14,441 commuters (the 4% 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.
Where Goshen’s workers come from
Where Goshen clocks in
18% of workers
3% 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 far Goshen’s workers travel
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.
In Goshen, walking beats the bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 15,068 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). 5.7% of Goshen households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Goshen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Goshen is 1,014th of 1,287 U.S. towns of 24,000 to 47,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | St. John IN | 24,841 | $131K | 2.1% | 2.3% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Zionsville IN | 33,624 | $172K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Perry Township IN | 39,325 | $112K | 3.4% | 1.3% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,012 | Farmington NM | 46,055 | $69K | 17.4% | 3.9% | 60% | C+ |
| 1,013 | Rosenberg TX | 42,701 | $66K | 20.2% | 5.9% | 15% | C+ |
| 1,014 | Goshen IN | 34,525 | $59K | 17.1% | 4.0% | 36% | C+ |
| 1,015 | Santa Paula CA | 31,774 | $79K | 14.2% | 6.8% | 12% | C+ |
| 1,016 | East Point GA | 38,225 | $69K | 19.9% | 6.9% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,287 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Goshen, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Goshen and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Goshen workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goshen | – | C+ | A− | 19 min | $59,184 |
| Dunlap | under 2% | B+ | B+ | 18 min | $87,039 |
| Concord Township | under 2% | C+ | B+ | 19 min | $55,206 |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | A− | C+ | 19 min | $112,136 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Goshen’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 Goshen: questions
What is the median household income in Goshen?
$59,184 (±$5,197) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goshen?
17.1%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goshen?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goshen work?
36% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elkhart (18%, 11 mi), Middlebury (3%, 9 mi), South Bend (3%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Goshen walkable?
Goshen is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Goshen without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Goshen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Goshen
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.