Work & commute · Tompkinsville

Work & commute in Tompkinsville, KY

About one in 3 of Tompkinsville’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Glasgow (8%), Bowling Green (6%) and Munfordville (3%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

29%

246 of 843 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

15 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 597 Tompkinsville residents head out of town to work, 246 work right here, and 1,480 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tompkinsville.

597live here, work elsewhere

246live and work here

1,480work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tompkinsville goes to work

Tompkinsville (in town)right here

29%246

Glasgow24.6 mi away

8%71

Bowling Green45.2 mi away

6%50

Munfordville41.5 mi away

3%25

Edmonton20 mi away

2%15

Elizabethtown70 mi away

2%15

Lexington-Fayette urban county114.7 mi away

2%14

Burkesville19 mi away

2%13

Fountain Run14.7 mi away

1%9

Horse Cave34.7 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%376

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

How far

How far Tompkinsville commutes

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

41%

16%

19%

24%

41%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tompkinsville is a job hub

2.05jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tompkinsville are

1,726 jobs are based in Tompkinsville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tompkinsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Tompkinsville

1,726 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Tompkinsville residents hold

843 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−4%

Jobs based in Tompkinsville, 2013 → 2023: 1,799 → 1,726. 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.