Work & commute · Windy Hills

Work & commute in Windy Hills, KY

Most working residents leave Windy Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are St. Matthews (7%), Jeffersontown (6%) and Watterson Park (5%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 1,028 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,014 Windy Hills residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 384 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Windy Hills.

1,014live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

384work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Windy Hills goes to work

St. Matthews1.5 mi away

7%75

Jeffersontown5.9 mi away

6%60

Watterson Park5.8 mi away

5%52

Lyndon2.9 mi away

3%32

Lexington-Fayette urban county66.1 mi away

3%28

Middletown6.8 mi away

2%24

Windy Hills (in town)right here

1%14

Shepherdsville20.3 mi away

1%13

Jeffersonville, IN5.5 mi away

1%11

Hurstbourne3.4 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

69%711

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

How far

How far Windy Hills commutes

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

79%

11%

79%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Windy Hills is a commuter town

0.39jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Windy Hills are

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

Jobs based in Windy Hills

398 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Windy Hills residents hold

1,028 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+95%

Jobs based in Windy Hills, 2013 → 2023: 204 → 398. 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.