Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · IN · GEOID 18377822024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Jasper, Indiana
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 15.3 min one way; 7.8% worked from home, 81.0% drove alone, and 3.9% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip15.3 min±2.3 min MOE
Worked from home7.8%±2.3 pp MOE
Drove alone81.0%±3.1 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.9%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Jasper city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.2 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Jasper city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 81.0%; 0.6% used public transit and 7.8% worked from home.
Each share uses 7,688 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Jasper city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 5th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 95% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 70% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 58% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 75% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Jasper city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 7,688 workers age 16+, including 7,091 workers with reported travel time and 597 home workers.
Population estimate15,991± 707 MOE
Workers age 16+7,688± 595 MOE
Workers with travel time7,091± 572 MOE
Estimated home workers597± 183 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Indiana reports →Comparable Indiana commute records for Jasper city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.