Work & commute · Brownsville

Work & commute in Brownsville, KY

Most working residents leave Brownsville for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Bowling Green (43%), Glasgow (3%) and Leitchfield (2%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 349 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 324 Brownsville residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 467 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brownsville.

324live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

467work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brownsville goes to work

Bowling Green17.7 mi away

43%151

Brownsville (in town)right here

7%25

Glasgow22.8 mi away

3%11

Leitchfield20.2 mi away

2%8

Franklin36.7 mi away

2%7

Lexington-Fayette urban county114.9 mi away

1%5

Smiths Grove10.5 mi away

1%4

Elizabethtown41 mi away

1%4

Morgantown24 mi away

1%3

Frankfort103.1 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%128

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Brownsville commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

18%

56%

20%

18%Under 10 mi

56%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brownsville is balanced between jobs and homes

1.41jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Brownsville are

492 jobs are based in Brownsville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brownsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brownsville

492 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Brownsville residents hold

349 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−41%

Jobs based in Brownsville, 2013 → 2023: 831 → 492. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.