Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Patricksburg has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 168 people commute in to work
0% of workers work from home; Indiana has 11%. Patricksburg has 169 jobs for 91 working residents. Only 1% work in Patricksburg; the top destination outside it is Spencer (16%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Patricksburg fills up on a workday
On a workday 90 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 430 people are in Patricksburg on a workday afternoon, 22% more 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.
Where Patricksburg’s workforce comes from
Where Patricksburg clocks in
16% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Patricksburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Patricksburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Patricksburg workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 150 commuters (the 0% 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 Patricksburg, by distance
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 Patricksburg: questions
What is the median household income in Patricksburg?
$73,564 (±$4,509) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Patricksburg?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Patricksburg?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Patricksburg work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spencer (16%, 10 mi), Indianapolis (11%, 54 mi), Richland Township (10%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Patricksburg 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 Patricksburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Patricksburg
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.