Photo: Russell Lee · Public domainArjay has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any work in Arjay itself; outside it, Pineville draws the most (24%, 4 miles). Arjay has 2 jobs; 54 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 10% across Kentucky.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Arjay
On a workday 54 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4 people are in Arjay on a workday afternoon, 93% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Arjay work
Where Arjay clocks in
24% of workers
19% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What Arjay’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Arjay’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Arjay
of Arjay workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Kentucky: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Arjay
About 21% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Arjay: questions
What is the poverty rate in Arjay?
64.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Arjay work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pineville (24%, 4 mi), Middlesborough (19%, 14 mi), Barbourville (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Arjay without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 64% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arjay, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arjay
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.