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Work & commute in Meadowview Estates · Balanced

100% of Meadowview Estates’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Meadowview Estates for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Watterson Park (9%), St. Matthews (9%) and Jeffersontown (5%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 88 working residents
Typical commute
6 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
28 min
More than KY (24 min)
Work from home
4%
Less than KY (10%)
Jobs based here
72
Balanced

What kind of work town is Meadowview Estates?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · How far

Half of Meadowview Estates commutes less than 6 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miWatterson Park: 9% · 3.2 miSt. Matthews: 9% · 1.8 miJeffersontown: 5% · 3.8 miNew Albany: 3% · 11.9 miJeffersonville: 3% · 8.5 miMiddletown: 2% · 6.4 miLexington-Fayette urban county: 2% · 65.2 miUtica: 2% · 9.9 miMuncie: 1% · 137.1 miColumbus: 1% · 69.7 miWatterson Park 9%St. Matthews 9%Jeffersontown 5%New Albany 3%Jeffersonville 3%Meadowview Estates
Meadowview EstatesTop destinations (size = commuters)
81%Under 10 mi71 residents
7%10–24 mi6 residents
2%25–50 mi2 residents
10%Over 50 mi9 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 88 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 72 people come in from elsewhere.

88live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
72work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night390
Workday370
390live here− 88head out to work+ 72come in to work= 370on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.82jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The commute map

9% of working residents work in Watterson Park

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

PaoliSellersburgNew Albany: 3 residents work here (3%)Jeffersonville: 3 residents work here (3%)Muncie: 1 residents work here (1%)Columbus: 1 residents work here (1%)Meadowview EstatesDruid HillsHouston AcresWindy HillsWatterson Park: 8 residents work here (9%)St. Matthews: 8 residents work here (9%)ShivelyMiddletown: 2 residents work here (2%)Jeffersontown: 4 residents work here (5%)Lexington-Fayette urban county: 2 residents work here (2%)Utica: 2 residents work here (2%)Watterson ParkSt. MatthewsJeffersontownNew AlbanyJeffersonvilleMiddletownMeadowview Estates
1
Watterson Park3.2 mi away
9%8
2
St. Matthews1.8 mi away
9%8
3
Jeffersontown3.8 mi away
5%4
4
New Albany, IN11.9 mi away
3%3
53%3
6
Middletown6.4 mi away
2%2
8
Utica, IN9.9 mi away
2%2
9
Muncie, IN137.1 mi away
1%1
10
Columbus, IN69.7 mi away
1%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
61%54
The top trips

Where Meadowview Estates clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

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

Jobs based in Meadowview EstatesJobs Meadowview Estates residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%8%
Trade, transport & utilities0%23%
Services: health, schools, offices100%69%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less29%11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month38%24%
Over $3,333 a month33%65%

Who does it

29 or younger21%16%
30 to 5453%53%
55 and older26%31%
+36%

Jobs based in Meadowview Estates, 2013 → 2023: 53 → 72. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

About 28 minutes each way, longer than most of Kentucky

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
215 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Meadowview Estates28 min
Kentucky24 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
4%

of Meadowview Estates workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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