Photo: WhisperToMe · Public domainThere are 1.9 jobs in Greencastle for every working resident, and 6,516 people commute in
8,036 jobs are based in Greencastle for 4,159 working residents. Greencastle grades C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Greencastle in brief
Greencastle’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Greencastle is Indianapolis, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (569) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Greencastle is where the jobs are
Greencastle has 8,036 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Greencastle draws workers from far and wide
The 8,036 jobs in Greencastle are filled from a wide area. Greencastle’s own residents hold 19% and the ten next-biggest home towns 22%; the other 59% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
The figures behind Greencastle’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greencastle is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #391 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Greencastle’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($55,565, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greencastle could be anywhere from C− to B.
Near or far: the trip to work from Greencastle
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.
Greencastle by day and by night
On a workday 2,639 residents head out to work and 1,520 work right here.
About 14,000 people are in Greencastle on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Greencastle, and from where
Where Greencastle clocks in
14% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Greencastle
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greencastle, 2013 → 2023: 8,712 → 8,036. 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 Greencastle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Greencastle, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greencastle workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,129 commuters (the 12% 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.
Greencastle is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greencastle is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #13 of 593 in Indiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 18.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,680 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). 6.6% of Greencastle households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greencastle’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Greencastle is 1,861st of 2,792 U.S. towns of 6,900 to 13,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | McCordsville IN | 13,094 | $111K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 147 | Miller Township IN | 10,161 | $113K | 3.0% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Lakes of the Four Seasons IN | 7,402 | $122K | 3.1% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,859 | Temple Hills MD | 8,969 | $67K | 12.5% | 9.5% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,860 | Valley Falls SC | 8,239 | $56K | 22.2% | 5.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,861 | Greencastle IN | 9,924 | $56K | 12.2% | 3.0% | 37% | C+ |
| 1,862 | Rochester NY | 7,463 | $87K | 8.7% | 5.4% | 15% | C+ |
| 1,863 | White Oak PA | 7,286 | $59K | 9.8% | 7.0% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,792 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Greencastle, 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 Greencastle: questions
What is the median household income in Greencastle?
$55,565 (±$10,751) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greencastle?
12.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greencastle?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greencastle work?
37% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Indianapolis (14%, 38 mi), Greencastle Township (6%, 0 mi), Plainfield (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greencastle walkable?
Greencastle is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 19% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greencastle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greencastle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greencastle
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.