Work & commute · Fort Knox

Work & commute in Fort Knox, KY

Most working residents leave Fort Knox for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Lexington-Fayette urban county (7%), Elizabethtown (7%) and Radcliff (3%). Half commute less than 34 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

104 of 1,243 working residents

Typical commute

34 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

12 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 1,139 Fort Knox residents head out of town to work, 104 work right here, and 1,739 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fort Knox.

1,139live here, work elsewhere

104live and work here

1,739work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fort Knox goes to work

Fort Knox (in town)right here

8%104

Lexington-Fayette urban county82.8 mi away

7%91

Elizabethtown13.8 mi away

7%84

Radcliff5.2 mi away

3%43

Bowling Green68.2 mi away

3%41

Owensboro63.5 mi away

2%23

Shepherdsville15.7 mi away

2%20

Florence104.4 mi away

1%18

Frankfort63.5 mi away

1%15

St. Matthews30.5 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%790

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

How far

How far Fort Knox commutes

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

14%

20%

23%

43%

14%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fort Knox is balanced between jobs and homes

1.48jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fort Knox are

1,843 jobs are based in Fort Knox. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fort Knox’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fort Knox

1,843 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Fort Knox residents hold

1,243 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month43%

−3%

Jobs based in Fort Knox, 2013 → 2023: 1,894 → 1,843. 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.