Work & commute · Caneyville

Work & commute in Caneyville, KY

Most working residents leave Caneyville for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Leitchfield (39%), Elizabethtown (7%) and Lexington-Fayette urban county (3%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 166 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 160 Caneyville residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 142 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Caneyville.

160live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

142work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Caneyville goes to work

Leitchfield12.6 mi away

39%64

Elizabethtown39.1 mi away

7%12

Caneyville (in town)right here

4%6

Lexington-Fayette urban county119.4 mi away

3%5

Owensboro40.9 mi away

2%4

Clarkson15.6 mi away

2%3

Bowling Green31 mi away

2%3

Sellersburg, IN78.2 mi away

1%2

Beaver Dam20.6 mi away

1%2

Bardstown63.3 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%63

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

How far

How far Caneyville commutes

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

47%

17%

28%

8%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Caneyville is balanced between jobs and homes

0.89jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Caneyville are

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

Jobs based in Caneyville

148 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities73%

Services (health, schools, offices…)20%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Caneyville residents hold

166 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−36%

Jobs based in Caneyville, 2013 → 2023: 230 → 148. 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.