Photo: Sarah Ewart · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Monroe City works elsewhere
For 3% of workers, the job is at home, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole. 57 jobs are based in Monroe City, against 216 working residents. Only 1% work in Monroe City itself; outside it, Vincennes draws the most (25%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Monroe City in brief
Monroe City and Vincennes trade workers both ways
Vincennes is the top workplace for Monroe City residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Monroe City come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Monroe City is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Monroe City, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Monroe City has about 330 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 216 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Monroe City commutes to
Where Monroe City clocks in
25% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Monroe City quiets down on a workday
On a workday 213 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 54 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Monroe City on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Jobs in Monroe City: what the 57 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monroe City, 2014 → 2024: 35 → 57. 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 Monroe City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Monroe City: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monroe City workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 349 commuters (the 3% 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.
The commute from Monroe City, by distance
About 26% 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.
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 Monroe City: questions
What is the median household income in Monroe City?
$56,094 (±$38,008) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monroe City?
28.7%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monroe City?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monroe City work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vincennes (25%, 10 mi), Vincennes Township (6%, 11 mi), Washington (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Monroe City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monroe City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monroe City
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.