Lewis has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Indiana has 11%. There are 9 jobs in Lewis for 28 working residents. Hardly any work in Lewis itself; outside it, Terre Haute draws the most (36%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Lewis: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 28 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
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 Lewis goes to work
Where Lewis clocks in
36% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
Most jobs in Lewis are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Lewis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Lewis
of Lewis workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 313 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lewis
About 29% 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 Lewis: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lewis?
73.8%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Lewis work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Terre Haute (36%, 16 mi), Evansville (7%, 89 mi), Indianapolis (7%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lewis 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 Lewis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lewis
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.