Work & commute · Nortonville

Work & commute in Nortonville, KY

Most working residents leave Nortonville for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Madisonville (32%), Hopkinsville (8%) and Hanson (3%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 359 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 353 Nortonville residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 166 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Nortonville.

353live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

166work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Nortonville goes to work

Madisonville11 mi away

32%116

Hopkinsville23.9 mi away

8%30

Hanson16.1 mi away

3%11

Owensboro43.7 mi away

3%11

Henderson45.6 mi away

2%8

Princeton24.3 mi away

2%7

Nortonville (in town)right here

2%6

Greenville15.4 mi away

1%5

Paducah66 mi away

1%5

Lexington-Fayette urban county174.4 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%155

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

How far

How far Nortonville commutes

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

14%

46%

19%

21%

14%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Nortonville is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Nortonville are

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

Jobs based in Nortonville

172 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Nortonville residents hold

359 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+213%

Jobs based in Nortonville, 2013 → 2023: 55 → 172. 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.