Photo: Retired username at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Audubon Park (1.3%) than in 92% of U.S. towns
Audubon Park grades A+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns. Hardly any stay in Audubon Park for work; outside it, Louisville is the main destination (18%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Audubon Park: the figures worth knowing
Most Audubon Park residents work close to home
79% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 8% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Audubon Park and Louisville trade workers both ways
Louisville is the top workplace for Audubon Park residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Audubon Park come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Audubon Park is a place people come home to
There are 179 jobs based in Audubon Park, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Audubon Park has about 990 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 649 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Audubon Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Audubon Park is among the top U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($100,972, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Audubon Park could be anywhere from A to A+.
How many miles Audubon Park commutes
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Out of Audubon Park to work: where people go
Where Audubon Park clocks in
5% 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.
How a workday changes Audubon Park
On a workday 643 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 173 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Audubon Park on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.28 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Audubon Park
179 jobs are based in Audubon Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Audubon Park, 2014 → 2024: 123 → 179. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Audubon Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 16 minutes in Audubon Park
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Audubon Park workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 842 commuters (the 14% 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.
Most of Audubon Park commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Audubon Park is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Kentucky.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 980 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, <1% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 7.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 90% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.4% of Audubon Park households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Audubon Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Audubon Park ranks: 71st of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 4% | A+ |
| 70 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | <1% | A+ |
| 71 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 72 | New Market MD | 1,609 | $203K | 0.8% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 73 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 133 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Audubon Park, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Audubon Park: questions
What is the median household income in Audubon Park?
$100,972 (±$28,605) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Audubon Park?
1.6%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Audubon Park?
16 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Audubon Park work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (18%, 4 mi), Watterson Park (6%, 2 mi), Jeffersontown (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Audubon Park walkable?
Audubon Park is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 11.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Audubon Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. <1% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Audubon Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Audubon Park
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.