Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Bremen works elsewhere
Employers in Bremen report 11 jobs, against 62 working residents. The average commute takes 28 minutes each way (Kentucky 24, U.S. 26). Hardly any work in Bremen itself; outside it, Greenville draws the most (11%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Bremen for work, and who comes in
On a workday 62 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Bremen on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting out of Bremen: the destinations
Where Bremen clocks in
11% 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.
Jobs in Bremen: what the 11 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bremen, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 11. 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 Bremen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Bremen’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bremen workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 103 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Bremen
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 Bremen: questions
What is the median household income in Bremen?
$68,125 (±$40,455) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bremen?
16.1%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bremen?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bremen work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (11%, 11 mi), Madisonville (11%, 16 mi), Owensboro (11%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bremen without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bremen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bremen
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.