Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Owensville commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
The two grades for Owensville are C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Employers in Owensville report 103 jobs, against 577 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Owensville apart on work
Owensville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Owensville is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Owensville’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($56,635, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Owensville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Owensville could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The daily flow of workers through Owensville
On a workday 555 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Owensville 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 2024, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Evansville
Where Owensville clocks in
17% of workers
14% of workers
12% 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 Owensville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Owensville, 2014 → 2024: 120 → 103. 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 Owensville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Owensville spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Owensville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 596 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.
How far Owensville goes to work
About 15% 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.
In Owensville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Owensville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Owensville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 611 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.3% of Owensville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Owensville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Owensville is 2,418th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,416 | Clarno WI | 1,142 | $84K | 12.3% | 0.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,417 | Drayton SC | 1,452 | $78K | 27.1% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,418 | Owensville IN | 1,332 | $57K | 6.2% | 5.2% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,419 | Mediapolis IA | 1,660 | $76K | 9.7% | 1.9% | 16% | C+ |
| 2,420 | Sebree KY | 1,546 | $59K | 6.9% | 0.5% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Owensville, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Owensville: questions
What is the median household income in Owensville?
$56,635 (±$16,538) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Owensville?
6.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Owensville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Owensville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Evansville (17%, 21 mi), Patoka Township (14%, 8 mi), Montgomery Township (12%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Owensville walkable?
Owensville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Owensville 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 Owensville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Owensville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.