Photo: Jacobjimmy2000 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Greentown works elsewhere
Greentown grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. There are 526 jobs in Greentown, against 969 working residents. About one in ten work in Greentown itself; outside it, Kokomo draws the most (33%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Greentown
Greentown and Kokomo trade workers both ways
Kokomo is the top workplace for Greentown residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Greentown come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Greentown pay little
34% of the jobs based in Greentown pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Greentown
59% of Greentown residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 38% of the jobs based in Greentown pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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; with 969 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Greentown: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Greentown is better than 48% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greentown’s grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($60,521, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Greentown’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Greentown could be anywhere from C to B+.
Commuting out of Greentown: the destinations
Where Greentown clocks in
10% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Greentown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greentown, 2013 → 2023: 471 → 526. 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 Greentown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Greentown by day and by night
On a workday 885 residents head out to work, 84 work right here, and 442 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Greentown on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Commuting from Greentown: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greentown workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 878 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Greentown
About 18% 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 Greentown, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greentown is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% 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 941 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). 5.3% of Greentown households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greentown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Greentown is 2,271st among 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,269 | Lake Bryan TX | 2,165 | $77K | 13.2% | 4.3% | 1% | B− |
| 2,270 | Alum Creek WV | 1,749 | $74K | 11.0% | 12.9% | 1% | B− |
| 2,271 | Greentown IN | 2,366 | $61K | 7.0% | 2.3% | 9% | B− |
| 2,272 | Brownsville OR | 1,904 | $83K | 10.0% | 1.1% | 4% | B− |
| 2,273 | Woodcreek TX | 1,876 | $74K | 4.1% | 21.3% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Greentown, 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 Greentown: questions
What is the median household income in Greentown?
$60,521 (±$9,399) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greentown?
7.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greentown?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greentown work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kokomo (33%, 9 mi), Indianapolis (10%, 49 mi), Liberty Township (3%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greentown walkable?
Greentown is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greentown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greentown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greentown
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.