William Henry Harrison Home (Grouseland) · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainVincennes’ household incomes are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns
2% of workers have no commute at all, where Indiana as a whole has 11%. Below the poverty line: 19.6% of residents, against 12.3% across Indiana. For jobs and income Vincennes is better than 20% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Vincennes in brief
Commutes from Vincennes are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 24 across Indiana. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Indiana worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Vincennes workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Vincennes’ Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Vincennes’ grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vincennes could be anywhere from D to C+.
Commuting from Vincennes: about 15 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vincennes workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,514 commuters (the 2% 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.
How many people are in Vincennes by day
On a workday 4,367 residents head out to work, 2,683 work right here, and 6,863 people come in from elsewhere.
About 19,000 people are in Vincennes on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 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.
Where Vincennes goes to work
Where Vincennes clocks in
11% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 9,546 jobs based in Vincennes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vincennes, 2013 → 2023: 10,809 → 9,546. 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 Vincennes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Vincennes
About 22% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Vincennes
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,662 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). 12.0% of Vincennes households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Vincennes’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Vincennes is 1,964th of 2,220 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 22,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Whitestown IN | 15,767 | $124K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | McCordsville IN | 13,094 | $111K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Brown Township IN | 15,523 | $140K | 2.3% | 2.8% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,962 | Miami OK | 12,893 | $46K | 22.6% | 3.0% | 35% | C− |
| 1,963 | Genesee Township MI | 20,266 | $57K | 17.8% | 10.2% | 4% | C− |
| 1,964 | Vincennes IN | 16,378 | $54K | 19.6% | 5.2% | 38% | C− |
| 1,965 | Augusta ME | 19,155 | $48K | 18.2% | 5.7% | 45% | C− |
| 1,966 | Adrian MI | 20,191 | $50K | 20.3% | 5.3% | 25% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Vincennes, 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 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 Vincennes: questions
What is the median household income in Vincennes?
$53,637 (±$5,502) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vincennes?
19.6%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vincennes?
15 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vincennes work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vincennes Township (11%, 4 mi), Patoka Township (4%, 23 mi), Indianapolis (4%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vincennes walkable?
Vincennes is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vincennes without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vincennes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vincennes
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.