Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Johnson has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
The trip to work takes 49 minutes on average (Indiana 24, U.S. 26). Employers in Johnson report 22 jobs; 107 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Johnson; the top destination outside it is Patoka Township (21%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Johnson on a workday afternoon
On a workday 106 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Johnson on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Where Johnson goes to work
Where Johnson clocks in
21% of workers
18% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 64% of jobs based in Johnson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Johnson, 2013 → 2023: 31 → 22. 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 Johnson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 49 minutes each way, longer than most of Indiana
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Johnson workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 95 commuters (the 11% 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.
Johnson’s commute, mile by mile
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 Johnson: questions
What is the poverty rate in Johnson?
2.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Johnson?
49 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Johnson work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Patoka Township (21%, 10 mi), Evansville (18%, 23 mi), Princeton (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Johnson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Johnson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Johnson
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.