Work & commute · Horse Cave

Work & commute in Horse Cave, KY

About one in 4 of Horse Cave’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Glasgow (12%), Bowling Green (9%) and Munfordville (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23%

180 of 771 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 591 Horse Cave residents head out of town to work, 180 work right here, and 2,768 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Horse Cave.

591live here, work elsewhere

180live and work here

2,768work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Horse Cave goes to work

Horse Cave (in town)right here

23%180

Glasgow11.4 mi away

12%89

Bowling Green31.4 mi away

9%71

Munfordville7.6 mi away

5%41

Cave City3.5 mi away

4%34

Elizabethtown36.9 mi away

2%18

Lexington-Fayette urban county100 mi away

1%11

Hodgenville29.1 mi away

1%7

Edmonton20.7 mi away

1%6

Columbia33.9 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%308

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

How far

How far Horse Cave commutes

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

40%

17%

22%

40%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Horse Cave is a job hub

3.82jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Horse Cave are

2,948 jobs are based in Horse Cave. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Horse Cave’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Horse Cave

2,948 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)78%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)16%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month76%

Jobs Horse Cave residents hold

771 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+16%

Jobs based in Horse Cave, 2013 → 2023: 2,537 → 2,948. 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.