Work & commute · Hawesville

Work & commute in Hawesville, KY

Most working residents leave Hawesville for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Owensboro (14%), Tell City (6%) and Tobin (4%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

46 of 419 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 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 373 Hawesville residents head out of town to work, 46 work right here, and 616 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hawesville.

373live here, work elsewhere

46live and work here

616work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hawesville goes to work

Owensboro21.7 mi away

14%58

Hawesville (in town)right here

11%46

Tell City, IN4.3 mi away

6%26

Tobin, IN8.8 mi away

4%16

Evansville, IN42.9 mi away

4%15

Lewisport8.4 mi away

3%11

Troy, IN5.3 mi away

2%8

Ferdinand, IN24 mi away

2%7

Lexington-Fayette urban county125.6 mi away

2%7

Grass, IN19.2 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%218

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

How far

How far Hawesville commutes

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

47%

23%

12%

18%

47%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hawesville is a job hub

1.58jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Hawesville are

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

Jobs based in Hawesville

662 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)64%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)26%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month73%

Jobs Hawesville residents hold

419 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+29%

Jobs based in Hawesville, 2013 → 2023: 513 → 662. 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.