Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Tennyson has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
4 jobs are based in Tennyson, against 90 working residents. Hardly any work in Tennyson itself; outside it, Evansville draws the most (26%, 24 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Tennyson
On a workday 90 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Tennyson on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Where people from Tennyson work
Where Tennyson clocks in
26% of workers
16% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Tennyson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tennyson, 2013 → 2023: 5 → 4. 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 Tennyson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes to work from Tennyson
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tennyson workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 79 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.
Where in the region Tennyson works
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 Tennyson: questions
What is the median household income in Tennyson?
$41,750 (±$8,476) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tennyson?
24.2%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tennyson?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tennyson work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Evansville (26%, 24 mi), Boonville (16%, 10 mi), Huntingburg (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tennyson without a car?
0% 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 Tennyson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tennyson
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.