Jeffersonville has lower household incomes than 92% of U.S. towns
3% of workers work from home (Ohio 13%). Poverty touches 36.0% of residents, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. For jobs and income Jeffersonville is better than 13% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jeffersonville and work: the main findings
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Jeffersonville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 30% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Jeffersonville makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Jeffersonville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Jeffersonville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Jeffersonville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 474 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Jeffersonville’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Jeffersonville’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Jeffersonville’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, Jeffersonville could be anywhere from D to C.
In Jeffersonville, 37% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
454 jobs are based in Jeffersonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jeffersonville, 2014 → 2024: 613 → 454. 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 Jeffersonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Jeffersonville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jeffersonville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 463 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
Jeffersonville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 445 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 425 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 (0.96 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Washington Court House
Where Jeffersonville clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 commute from Jeffersonville, by distance
About 20% 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.
For most of Jeffersonville, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 478 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). 4.6% of Jeffersonville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jeffersonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Jeffersonville is 3,801st of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,799 | Knights Landing CA | 1,099 | $49K | 12.8% | 22.9% | <1% | D |
| 3,800 | Villisca IA | 1,099 | $60K | 13.5% | 0.9% | 6% | D |
| 3,801 | Jeffersonville OH | 1,246 | $46K | 36.0% | 3.4% | 6% | D |
| 3,802 | Waukomis OK | 1,324 | $61K | 18.4% | 1.2% | 4% | D |
| 3,803 | Ceredo WV | 1,318 | $50K | 29.1% | 5.2% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Jeffersonville, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Jeffersonville: questions
What is the median household income in Jeffersonville?
$45,750 (±$17,524) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jeffersonville?
36.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jeffersonville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jeffersonville work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington Court House (12%, 10 mi), Jefferson Township (7%, 1 mi), Union Township (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Jeffersonville walkable?
Jeffersonville is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jeffersonville
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.