Work & commute · Burnside

Work & commute in Burnside, KY

Most working residents leave Burnside for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Somerset (33%), Lexington-Fayette urban county (4%) and Monticello (2%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

45 of 534 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 489 Burnside residents head out of town to work, 45 work right here, and 965 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Burnside.

489live here, work elsewhere

45live and work here

965work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Burnside goes to work

Somerset5.9 mi away

33%175

Burnside (in town)right here

8%45

Lexington-Fayette urban county72.1 mi away

4%23

Monticello16.2 mi away

2%12

Bowling Green98.9 mi away

2%10

Danville44.3 mi away

1%7

Elizabethtown83.3 mi away

1%7

Richmond53.3 mi away

1%6

London32 mi away

1%5

Bardstown71.6 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%239

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

How far

How far Burnside commutes

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

39%

22%

11%

28%

39%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Burnside is a job hub

1.89jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Burnside are

1,010 jobs are based in Burnside. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Burnside’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Burnside

1,010 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)43%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)33%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Burnside residents hold

534 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+21%

Jobs based in Burnside, 2013 → 2023: 833 → 1,010. 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.