Work & commute · Stearns

Work & commute in Stearns, KY

Most working residents leave Stearns for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Somerset (11%), Whitley City (8%) and Pine Knot (5%). Half commute less than 28 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

35 of 406 working residents

Typical commute

28 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 371 Stearns residents head out of town to work, 35 work right here, and 534 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Stearns.

371live here, work elsewhere

35live and work here

534work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Stearns goes to work

Somerset27.9 mi away

11%44

Stearns (in town)right here

9%35

Whitley City1.9 mi away

8%31

Pine Knot2.9 mi away

5%22

Lexington-Fayette urban county92.9 mi away

5%20

Burnside23.4 mi away

3%14

London36.5 mi away

2%9

Williamsburg17.4 mi away

2%8

Corbin26.4 mi away

1%6

Columbia53.9 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%213

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

How far

How far Stearns commutes

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

30%

13%

25%

32%

30%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Stearns is balanced between jobs and homes

1.40jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Stearns are

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

Jobs based in Stearns

569 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Stearns residents hold

406 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month42%

−45%

Jobs based in Stearns, 2013 → 2023: 1,043 → 569. 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.