Shelburn Interurban Depot-THI&E Interurban Depot · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHouseholds in Shelburn have lower incomes than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Hardly any work in Shelburn; the top destination outside it is Sullivan (12%, 6 miles). The poverty rate is 24.7% (Indiana 12.3%). For jobs and income Shelburn is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Shelburn
Inside Shelburn’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Shelburn’s grade.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Shelburn’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, Shelburn could be anywhere from D− to D.
The workday shuffle in and out of Shelburn
On a workday 399 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Shelburn on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.17 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Shelburn: the destinations
Where Shelburn clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
What work there is in Shelburn: 67 jobs
67 jobs are based in Shelburn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shelburn, 2014 → 2024: 40 → 67. 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 Shelburn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Shelburn
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shelburn workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 622 commuters (the 5% 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 Shelburn, by distance
About 26% 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 Shelburn, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 653 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). 4.7% of Shelburn households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shelburn’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, and where Shelburn sits
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Campbell Township IN | 1,172 | $122K | 0.0% | 7.1% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Greenville IN | 1,452 | $135K | 5.6% | 4.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,469 | Rose Lodge OR | 1,381 | $59K | 23.6% | 0.0% | 2% | D− |
| 3,470 | Omega GA | 1,341 | $42K | 34.1% | 2.6% | 5% | D− |
| 3,471 | Shelburn IN | 1,103 | $46K | 24.7% | 1.1% | 1% | D− |
| 3,472 | Pamplico SC | 1,062 | $35K | 31.7% | 5.7% | 2% | D− |
| 3,473 | Maple Grove Township MI | 1,345 | $58K | 23.8% | 11.3% | 5% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Shelburn, 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 Shelburn: questions
What is the median household income in Shelburn?
$46,458 (±$10,792) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shelburn?
24.7%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shelburn?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shelburn work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sullivan (12%, 6 mi), Hamilton Township (9%, 5 mi), Terre Haute (8%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Shelburn walkable?
Shelburn is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shelburn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shelburn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shelburn
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.