Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Oaktown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
For 2% of workers, the job is at home (Indiana 11%). 48 jobs are based in Oaktown, against 258 working residents. Hardly any work in Oaktown; the top destination outside it is Vincennes (21%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Oaktown at work: what stands out
Oaktown is a place people come home to
There are 48 jobs based in Oaktown, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Oaktown has about 370 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Oaktown 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 258 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Oaktown
On a workday 258 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Oaktown on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Oaktown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oaktown workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 348 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.
Where people from Oaktown work
Where Oaktown clocks in
21% 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.
The kinds of work in Oaktown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oaktown, 2013 → 2023: 64 → 48. 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 Oaktown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Oaktown
About 22% 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 Oaktown: questions
What is the median household income in Oaktown?
$38,333 (±$23,353) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oaktown?
3.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oaktown?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oaktown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vincennes (21%, 14 mi), Vincennes Township (9%, 18 mi), Busseron Township (9%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Oaktown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oaktown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oaktown
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.