Photo: Nyttend · Public domainGreenville’s household incomes are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income A: better than 91% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D: more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 34 minutes each way (Indiana 24, U.S. 26). Only 1% work in Greenville; the top destination outside it is New Albany (19%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Greenville
Greenville is a place people come home to
There are 200 jobs based in Greenville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Greenville has about 980 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Greenville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 24 across Indiana. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical 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; with 672 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Greenville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Greenville is better than 91% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($134,934, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Greenville’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, Greenville could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Greenville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 662 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 190 people come in from elsewhere.
About 980 people are in Greenville on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
About 34 minutes each way, longer than most of Indiana
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 619 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
19% of working residents work in New Albany
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Greenville clocks in
19% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 200 jobs in Greenville are
200 jobs are based in Greenville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Greenville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenville, 2013 → 2023: 149 → 200. 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.
Half of Greenville commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 19% 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.
Most trips from Greenville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenville is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% 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 720 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 0.0 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). 0.0% of Greenville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Greenville is 272nd of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Greenville, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 270 | Jefferson Township IN | 1,541 | $122K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 6% | A |
| 271 | Bridgewater Township MN | 1,836 | $121K | 4.5% | 2.9% | 1% | A |
| 272 | Greenville IN | 1,452 | $135K | 5.6% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| 273 | Eureka Township MN | 1,358 | $100K | 5.0% | 0.5% | 3% | A |
| 274 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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.
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 Greenville: questions
What is the median household income in Greenville?
$134,934 (±$7,877) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenville?
5.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenville?
34 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Albany (19%, 10 mi), Louisville (9%, 22 mi), Jeffersonville (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenville walkable?
Greenville is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenville
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.