Photo: ANKAWÜ · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Jasonville earn less than those in 95% of U.S. towns
Jasonville grades D for jobs and income and A for walkability. Below the poverty line: 14.8% of residents (Indiana 12.3%). Only 8% work in Jasonville; the top destination outside it is Linton (12%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Jasonville apart on work
Jasonville is a place people come home to
There are 231 jobs based in Jasonville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Jasonville has about 1,300 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Jasonville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Jasonville fell from 386 in 2014 to 231 in 2024, −40%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Jasonville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 24 across Indiana. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 38 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 906 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jasonville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Jasonville is better than 7% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Jasonville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($41,328, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (10.4%) is left out: Jasonville’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, Jasonville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Jasonville
On a workday 835 residents head out to work, 71 work right here, and 160 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Jasonville on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.25 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 2024, primary jobs.
What Jasonville’s employers do
231 jobs are based in Jasonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jasonville, 2014 → 2024: 386 → 231. 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 Jasonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Jasonville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jasonville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 726 commuters (the 4% 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 Jasonville goes to work
Where Jasonville clocks in
10% 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.
Miles to work from Jasonville
About 24% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Jasonville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jasonville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Jasonville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 760 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). 8.5% of Jasonville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jasonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600, Jasonville ranks 4,680th of 5,234 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 156 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,678 | Hoopa CA | 2,233 | $65K | 21.5% | 11.7% | 59% | D |
| 4,679 | Grove Hill AL | 1,708 | $59K | 18.2% | 7.7% | 13% | D |
| 4,680 | Jasonville IN | 1,952 | $41K | 14.8% | 10.4% | 8% | D |
| 4,681 | Hoisington KS | 2,598 | $52K | 16.5% | 8.8% | 30% | D |
| 4,682 | Standish MI | 1,449 | $35K | 20.1% | 8.5% | 16% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Jasonville, 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 Jasonville: questions
What is the median household income in Jasonville?
$41,328 (±$9,280) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jasonville?
14.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jasonville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jasonville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Linton (12%, 9 mi), Terre Haute (10%, 23 mi), Indianapolis (8%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Jasonville walkable?
Jasonville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jasonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jasonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jasonville
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.