Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Hatfield has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any stay in Hatfield for work; outside it, Evansville is the main destination (26%, 18 miles). Hatfield has 9 jobs for 300 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Indiana has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hatfield and work: the main findings
Hatfield is a place people come home to
There are 9 jobs based in Hatfield, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hatfield has about 210 people in it, 59% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Hatfield workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 300 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who leaves Hatfield for work, and who comes in
On a workday 300 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Hatfield on a workday afternoon, 59% 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.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Hatfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hatfield workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 157 commuters (the 0% 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 Hatfield goes to work
Where Hatfield clocks in
26% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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 Hatfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hatfield, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 9. 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 Hatfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Hatfield commutes
About 17% 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 Hatfield: questions
What is the median household income in Hatfield?
$71,932 (±$55,172) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hatfield?
21.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hatfield?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hatfield work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Evansville (26%, 18 mi), Rockport (8%, 9 mi), Owensboro (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hatfield 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 Hatfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hatfield
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.