Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Where Matthews earns its living
A typical one-way commute lasts 27 minutes (Indiana 24, U.S. 26). 0% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Only 2% stay in Matthews for work; outside it, Marion is the main destination (16%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Matthews for work, and who comes in
On a workday 173 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 103 people come in from elsewhere.
About 410 people are in Matthews on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.60 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Matthews’ working residents head each day
Where Matthews clocks in
16% of workers
15% 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.
61% of the jobs in Matthews make or build things
106 jobs are based in Matthews.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Matthews, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 106. 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 Matthews’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Matthews
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Matthews workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 209 commuters (the <1% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Matthews
About 23% 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 Matthews: questions
What is the median household income in Matthews?
$50,048 (±$11,974) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Matthews?
15.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Matthews?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Matthews work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (16%, 14 mi), Upland (15%, 5 mi), Indianapolis (9%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Matthews 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 Matthews, from the people who make the trip.
More of Matthews
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.