Photo: Timothy K Hamilton Creativity+ Photography · CC BY 3.0Jobs, income and commuting in New Harmony, IN
Only 5% stay in New Harmony for work; outside it, Evansville is the main destination (32%, 24 miles). Home is the office for 2% of workers, where Indiana as a whole has 11%. Working residents average 24 minutes each way, about the same as across Indiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in New Harmony
One in three of New Harmony works in Evansville
87 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Evansville, 24 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in New Harmony itself. The commute map ↓
Few New Harmony workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 275 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that employ New Harmony’s residents
Where New Harmony clocks in
32% of workers
11% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from New Harmony
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Harmony workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 415 commuters (the 2% 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.
New Harmony by day and by night
On a workday 260 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 215 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Services make up most of the work in New Harmony
230 jobs are based in New Harmony.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Harmony, 2013 → 2023: 219 → 230. 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 New Harmony’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far New Harmony goes to work
About 18% 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 New Harmony: questions
What is the median household income in New Harmony?
$57,875 (±$13,831) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Harmony?
7.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Harmony?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Harmony work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Evansville (32%, 24 mi), Black Township (12%, 12 mi), Mount Vernon (11%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around New Harmony 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 New Harmony, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Harmony
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.