Work & commute · Hodgenville

Work & commute in Hodgenville, KY

Most working residents leave Hodgenville for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Elizabethtown (21%), Bardstown (4%) and Lexington-Fayette urban county (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

98 of 1,325 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,227 Hodgenville residents head out of town to work, 98 work right here, and 880 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hodgenville.

1,227live here, work elsewhere

98live and work here

880work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hodgenville goes to work

Elizabethtown12.7 mi away

21%276

Hodgenville (in town)right here

7%98

Bardstown23.1 mi away

4%52

Lexington-Fayette urban county76.9 mi away

4%52

St. Matthews47.7 mi away

2%25

Radcliff21 mi away

2%24

Shepherdsville28.9 mi away

1%18

Bowling Green56 mi away

1%18

Jeffersontown45.2 mi away

1%17

Glasgow40.1 mi away

1%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%728

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

How far

How far Hodgenville commutes

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

22%

30%

27%

21%

22%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hodgenville is a commuter town

0.74jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.74 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Hodgenville are

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

Jobs based in Hodgenville

978 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Hodgenville residents hold

1,325 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+0%

Jobs based in Hodgenville, 2013 → 2023: 978 → 978. 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.