Most of Henryville commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
There are 278 jobs in Henryville, against 918 working residents. For jobs and income Henryville is better than 69% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (B). Only 4% stay in Henryville for work; outside it, Jeffersonville is the main destination (15%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Henryville
Why Henryville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Henryville’s grade up (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($71,667, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Henryville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Henryville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How many people are in Henryville by day
On a workday 881 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 241 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Henryville on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Henryville’s residents
Where Henryville clocks in
15% of workers
11% 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 Henryville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Henryville, 2014 → 2024: 204 → 278. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Henryville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Henryville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Henryville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 786 commuters (the 8% 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.
Henryville’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Henryville, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 856 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 under 0.1 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). 6.8% of Henryville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Henryville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Henryville is 1,168th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 164 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,166 | Monroe Township OH | 2,058 | $73K | 8.3% | 0.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,167 | Sunnyland IL | 1,231 | $91K | 15.4% | 21.0% | 0% | B+ |
| 1,168 | Henryville IN | 1,691 | $72K | 6.9% | 1.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,169 | Cokato Township MN | 1,406 | $87K | 3.0% | 3.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,170 | Litchfield NY | 1,428 | $88K | 5.5% | 4.4% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Henryville, 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 2024, 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 Henryville: questions
What is the median household income in Henryville?
$71,667 (±$12,968) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Henryville?
6.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Henryville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Henryville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jeffersonville (15%, 14 mi), New Albany (11%, 16 mi), Louisville (6%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Henryville walkable?
Henryville is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Henryville without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Henryville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Henryville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.