Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Sunman, and the trip to work
Only 3% work in Sunman; the top destination outside it is Batesville (26%, 8 miles). Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. Employers in Sunman report 382 jobs for 393 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sunman in brief
Sunman and Batesville trade workers both ways
Batesville is the top workplace for Sunman residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Sunman come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Sunman than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Sunman fell from 745 in 2013 to 382 in 2023, −49%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Sunman pay little
27% of the jobs based in Sunman pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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; with 393 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Sunman to work: where people go
Where Sunman clocks in
26% of workers
5% 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 Sunman
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sunman, 2013 → 2023: 745 → 382. 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 Sunman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Sunman on a workday afternoon
On a workday 383 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 372 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 24 minutes each way, about the IN average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sunman workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 601 commuters (the 9% 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 Sunman, by distance
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.
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 Sunman: questions
What is the median household income in Sunman?
$73,413 (±$6,962) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sunman?
8.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sunman?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sunman work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Batesville (26%, 8 mi), Greensburg (5%, 23 mi), Cincinnati (5%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sunman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sunman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sunman
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.