Work means Casper for more than half of Evansville’s working residents
Evansville has 1,919 jobs; 1,159 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Evansville is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (C+). A typical one-way commute lasts 15 minutes, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Evansville: the gist
Most Evansville residents work close to home
79% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Evansville is where the jobs are
Evansville has 1,919 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Evansville makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Evansville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Evansville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 15%. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Evansville’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Evansville’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Evansville could be anywhere from C to A.
The daily trip into Evansville
Where Evansville clocks in
2% 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.
How far it is to work from Evansville
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily flow of workers through Evansville
On a workday 1,104 residents head out to work, 55 work right here, and 1,864 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,600 people are in Evansville on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 47% of the jobs in Evansville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Evansville, 2014 → 2024: 2,002 → 1,919. 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 Evansville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 15 minutes each way, quicker than most of Wyoming
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Evansville workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,574 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Wyoming: 83% 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 in Evansville is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.8% across Wyoming.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,636 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.6% of Evansville households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Evansville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Evansville is 2,088th among 4,882 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 991 | Bar Nunn WY | 3,012 | $99K | 2.2% | 3.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,257 | South Park WY | 2,093 | $116K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,442 | North Rock Springs WY | 2,277 | $104K | 9.0% | 1.6% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,086 | Granby CO | 2,392 | $73K | 4.7% | 2.4% | 14% | B− |
| 2,087 | Hebron IN | 3,775 | $74K | 6.3% | 5.8% | 4% | B− |
| 2,088 | Evansville WY | 2,875 | $77K | 3.9% | 6.4% | 5% | B− |
| 2,089 | Jefferson Township IN | 2,291 | $58K | 6.7% | 0.5% | 2% | B− |
| 2,090 | Colfax Township MI | 2,036 | $88K | 8.1% | 2.8% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 0% | 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 Evansville, the top three, the last and three more from Wyoming.
60% of Evansville works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Evansville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville | – | B− | C+ | 15 min | $76,893 |
| Brookhurst | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
| Casper | 60% | B− | A− | 17 min | $70,218 |
Same-state neighbors only. Brookhurst: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Casper. Darker towns draw more of Evansville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Evansville: questions
What is the median household income in Evansville?
$76,893 (±$13,755) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Evansville?
3.9%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Evansville?
15 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Evansville work?
5% work in town.
Is Evansville walkable?
Evansville is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Evansville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Evansville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Evansville
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.