Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Bloomfield has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. Bloomfield has 156 jobs, against 443 working residents. For jobs and income Bloomfield is better than 32% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The four measures behind Bloomfield’s grade
Job access by car holds Bloomfield’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($55,063, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Bloomfield’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bloomfield could be anywhere from C− to B.
The daily commute in and out of Bloomfield
On a workday 433 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 146 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Bloomfield on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
23% of working residents work in Bardstown
Where Bloomfield clocks in
23% 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 Bloomfield’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bloomfield, 2013 → 2023: 155 → 156. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bloomfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Bloomfield: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bloomfield workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 478 commuters (the 6% 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.
Miles to work from Bloomfield
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.
In Bloomfield, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 508 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.1% of Bloomfield households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Bloomfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,653rd of 3,133: where Bloomfield ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Verona KY | 1,394 | $145K | 3.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,651 | Bloomer WI | 1,085 | $79K | 14.4% | 5.4% | 3% | C |
| 1,652 | Sigel WI | 1,017 | $68K | 10.5% | 2.4% | 1% | C |
| 1,653 | Bloomfield KY | 1,011 | $55K | 10.9% | 3.8% | 2% | C |
| 1,654 | Willards MD | 1,018 | $75K | 22.1% | 11.0% | 1% | C |
| 1,655 | Burnside Township PA | 1,042 | $70K | 8.3% | 4.1% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Bloomfield, 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 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 Bloomfield: questions
What is the median household income in Bloomfield?
$55,063 (±$20,847) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bloomfield?
10.9%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bloomfield?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bloomfield work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bardstown (23%, 10 mi), Louisville (12%, 27 mi), Lexington (3%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bloomfield walkable?
Bloomfield is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bloomfield without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bloomfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bloomfield
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. 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.