Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Buckhorn draws 69 commuters a day, with 3.0 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 10% for Kentucky as a whole. Employers in Buckhorn report 69 jobs, against 23 working residents. Hardly any stay in Buckhorn for work; outside it, Hazard is the main destination (35%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Buckhorn for work, and who comes in
On a workday 23 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 130 people are in Buckhorn on a workday afternoon, 57% more 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 Buckhorn’s workforce comes from
Where Buckhorn clocks in
35% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 Buckhorn’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckhorn, 2013 → 2023: 128 → 69. 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 Buckhorn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Buckhorn
of Buckhorn workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 20 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Buckhorn
About 32% 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 Buckhorn: questions
What is the poverty rate in Buckhorn?
25.4%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Buckhorn work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazard (35%, 16 mi), Brodhead (4%, 52 mi), Barbourville (4%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Buckhorn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 51% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buckhorn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckhorn
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.