Photo: Nyttend · Public domainCadiz has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
About one in four stay in Cadiz for work; outside it, Hopkinsville is the main destination (22%, 19 miles). 23.5% of residents live below the poverty line, against 16.1% across Kentucky. The two grades for Cadiz are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Cadiz, in brief
Cadiz is where the jobs are
Cadiz has 1,876 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The biggest group of Cadiz’s workers comes from Hopkinsville
123 of the people who work in Cadiz live in Hopkinsville, 19 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 939 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cadiz
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cadiz is better than 16% of U.S. towns, #109 of 142 in Kentucky. Unemployment holds Cadiz’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($44,152, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cadiz could be anywhere from D− to C+.
In and out of Cadiz on a workday
On a workday 698 residents head out to work, 241 work right here, and 1,635 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Cadiz on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
2.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The daily trip into Cadiz
Where Cadiz clocks in
22% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Cadiz
1,876 jobs are based in Cadiz.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cadiz, 2013 → 2023: 2,068 → 1,876. 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 Cadiz’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Cadiz takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cadiz workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,098 commuters (the 9% 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 Cadiz
About 20% 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.
In Cadiz, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cadiz is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #70 of 142 in Kentucky. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% 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 1,204 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). 9.1% of Cadiz households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cadiz’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cadiz next to U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700: 4,070th of 4,969 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Lakeside Park KY | 2,847 | $129K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Indian Hills KY | 2,939 | $192K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Windy Hills KY | 2,476 | $131K | 5.1% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,068 | West Hammond NM | 2,236 | $49K | 11.7% | 8.5% | 1% | C− |
| 4,069 | Mount Olive IL | 1,936 | $56K | 17.8% | 7.9% | 7% | C− |
| 4,070 | Cadiz KY | 2,771 | $44K | 23.5% | 3.4% | 26% | C− |
| 4,071 | Leonard TX | 2,212 | $55K | 18.4% | 7.3% | 7% | C− |
| 4,072 | Washington Township IN | 3,380 | $49K | 10.9% | 8.6% | 6% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Cadiz, 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 Cadiz: questions
What is the median household income in Cadiz?
$44,152 (±$8,466) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cadiz?
23.5%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cadiz?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cadiz work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hopkinsville (22%, 19 mi), Nashville (4%, 75 mi), Clarksville (3%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cadiz walkable?
Cadiz is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cadiz without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cadiz, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cadiz
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.