Work & commute · Philpot

Work & commute in Philpot, KY

Most working residents leave Philpot for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Owensboro (35%), Grass (2%) and Evansville (2%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

9 of 422 working residents

Typical commute

9 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 413 Philpot residents head out of town to work, 9 work right here, and 304 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Philpot.

413live here, work elsewhere

9live and work here

304work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Philpot goes to work

Owensboro6.6 mi away

35%147

Grass, IN18.7 mi away

2%10

Evansville, IN34 mi away

2%9

Philpot (in town)right here

2%9

Lexington-Fayette urban county140.2 mi away

2%8

Tell City, IN20 mi away

2%7

Bowling Green60.9 mi away

2%7

Hawesville17.1 mi away

1%6

Jeffersontown84.4 mi away

1%5

Elizabethtown61.3 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%209

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

How far

How far Philpot commutes

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

52%

22%

19%

52%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Philpot 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 Philpot are

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

Jobs based in Philpot

313 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)71%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Philpot residents hold

422 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−4%

Jobs based in Philpot, 2013 → 2023: 327 → 313. 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.