Work & commute · St. Matthews

Work & commute in St. Matthews, KY

Most working residents leave St. Matthews for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Jeffersontown (5%), Watterson Park (4%) and Lyndon (3%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

747 of 8,420 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,673 St. Matthews residents head out of town to work, 747 work right here, and 24,854 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Matthews.

7,673live here, work elsewhere

747live and work here

24,854work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Matthews goes to work

St. Matthews (in town)right here

9%747

Jeffersontown4.8 mi away

5%460

Watterson Park4.5 mi away

4%375

Lyndon2.9 mi away

3%269

Lexington-Fayette urban county65.7 mi away

3%212

Middletown6.4 mi away

2%135

Jeffersonville, IN6.8 mi away

1%95

Hurstbourne2.6 mi away

1%94

New Albany, IN11 mi away

1%65

Shepherdsville18.8 mi away

1%48

Everywhere elseother towns and states

70%5,920

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

How far

How far St. Matthews commutes

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

80%

80%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Matthews is a job hub

3.04jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Matthews are

25,601 jobs are based in St. Matthews. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Matthews’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Matthews

25,601 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs St. Matthews residents hold

8,420 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+17%

Jobs based in St. Matthews, 2013 → 2023: 21,937 → 25,601. 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.