Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Greens Fork commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
3% of workers work from home, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole. Employers in Greens Fork report 10 jobs for 163 working residents. Hardly any stay in Greens Fork for work; outside it, Richmond is the main destination (30%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Greens Fork
On a workday 163 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Greens Fork on a workday afternoon, 46% 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.
Where Greens Fork’s working residents head each day
Where Greens Fork clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Greens Fork
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greens Fork, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 10. 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 Greens Fork’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Greens Fork, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greens Fork workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 188 commuters (the 3% 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.
Miles to work from Greens Fork
About 29% 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.
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 Greens Fork: questions
What is the median household income in Greens Fork?
$74,875 (±$41,929) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greens Fork?
6.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greens Fork?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greens Fork work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond (30%, 9 mi), Indianapolis (9%, 59 mi), Hagerstown (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Greens Fork without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greens Fork, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greens Fork
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.