Photo: Evking22 · CC BY-SA 4.0More than half of Perry Township’s working residents commute to Evansville
Commuters spend 19 minutes getting to work on average, next to 24 for Indiana and 26 for the U.S. Jobs and income earn Perry Township B; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in ten stay in Perry Township for work; outside it, Evansville is the main destination (57%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Perry Township
More than half of Perry Township works in Evansville
6,029 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Evansville, 6.4 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Perry Township itself. The commute map ↓
Most Perry Township residents work close to home
67% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Perry Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Indiana. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Indiana worker. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Perry Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Perry Township is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #213 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Perry Township’s grade up (2.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($66,340, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Perry Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The towns that employ Perry Township’s residents
Where Perry Township clocks in
57% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
How far it is to work from Perry Township
About 16% 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.
About 19 minutes each way for Perry Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perry Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11,520 commuters (the 6% 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.
Perry Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 9,564 residents head out to work, 1,027 work right here, and 5,261 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20,000 people are in Perry Township on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.59 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Inside Perry Township’s 6,288 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perry Township, 2013 → 2023: 6,256 → 6,288. 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 Perry Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Perry Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perry Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #179 of 593 in Indiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 12,281 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). 4.5% of Perry Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Perry Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Perry Township next to U.S. towns of 17,000 to 33,000: 895th of 1,642 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
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| 29 | St. John IN | 24,841 | $131K | 2.1% | 2.3% | 8% | A+ |
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| 107 | Vernon Township IN | 20,047 | $108K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 7% | A+ |
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| 211 | Sugar Creek Township IN | 18,299 | $101K | 5.6% | 2.0% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 893 | Roselle NJ | 23,261 | $93K | 9.5% | 8.0% | 4% | B |
| 894 | Elmwood Park NJ | 21,534 | $102K | 11.6% | 7.4% | 6% | B |
| 895 | Perry Township IN | 24,679 | $66K | 11.0% | 2.2% | 10% | B |
| 896 | Norton Shores MI | 25,088 | $77K | 6.5% | 4.8% | 13% | B |
| 897 | Wilsonville OR | 27,833 | $96K | 8.8% | 6.6% | 15% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,642 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Perry Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Around Perry Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to German Township (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perry Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Township | – | B | B | 19 min | $66,340 |
| Union Township | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
| German Township | 1% | B | C− | 23 min | $81,346 |
| Marrs Township | under 1% | A | D− | 23 min | $103,750 |
| Pigeon Township | under 1% | C− | A | 18 min | $42,766 |
Same-state neighbors only. Union Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Perry Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Perry Township: questions
What is the median household income in Perry Township?
$66,340 (±$9,728) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perry Township?
11.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perry Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perry Township work?
10% work in town.
Is Perry Township walkable?
Perry Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perry Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perry Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perry Township
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. 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.