Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Somerville works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Somerville for work; outside it, Patoka Township is the main destination (20%, 12 miles). Employers in Somerville report 9 jobs for 115 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers, against 11% across Indiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Somerville, and who commutes in
On a workday 115 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Somerville on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Commuting out of Somerville: the destinations
Where Somerville clocks in
20% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Somerville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Somerville, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 9. 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 Somerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Somerville: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Somerville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 102 commuters (the 1% 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 in the region Somerville works
About 17% 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 Somerville: questions
What is the median household income in Somerville?
$60,208 (±$16,766) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Somerville?
11.3%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Somerville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Somerville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Patoka Township (20%, 12 mi), Evansville (14%, 22 mi), Princeton (12%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Somerville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Somerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Somerville
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.