Hotel Metropolitan · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainThere are 3.9 jobs in Calvert City for every working resident, and 3,625 people commute in
The two grades for Calvert City are C for jobs and income and C for walkability. Calvert City has 3,775 jobs, against 979 working residents. Measured by household income, Calvert City is behind 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Calvert City stands out on work
Calvert City fills up on a workday
Calvert City has 3,775 jobs, 3.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,300 people are in town, more than double the 2,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Calvert City makes and builds things
63% of the jobs based in Calvert City are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Calvert City residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Calvert City pay better than its residents’ jobs
81% of the jobs based in Calvert City pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 52% of the jobs Calvert City residents hold. 96% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Calvert City. The jobs ↓
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 979 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Calvert City
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Calvert City is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #83 of 142 in Kentucky. Unemployment holds Calvert City’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($48,906, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Calvert City could be anywhere from D to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Calvert City
On a workday 829 residents head out to work and 150 work right here.
About 5,300 people are in Calvert City on a workday afternoon, 111% more than live here.
3.9 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.
Calvert City makes things: 63% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Calvert City, 2013 → 2023: 2,982 → 3,775. 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 Calvert City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Calvert City
Where Calvert City clocks in
21% of workers
6% 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.
Time on the road from Calvert City: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Calvert City workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,137 commuters (the 4% 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.
Where in the region Calvert City works
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 Calvert City, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Calvert City is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #108 of 142 in Kentucky. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% 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 1,183 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). 4.2% of Calvert City households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Calvert City’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Calvert City is 3,336th of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Lakeside Park KY | 2,847 | $129K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Indian Hills KY | 2,939 | $192K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Windy Hills KY | 2,476 | $131K | 5.1% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,334 | Sumpter Township IL | 1,978 | $71K | 11.8% | 0.7% | 14% | C |
| 3,335 | White Township MN | 3,088 | $55K | 14.0% | 2.3% | 13% | C |
| 3,336 | Calvert City KY | 2,510 | $49K | 12.8% | 4.2% | 15% | C |
| 3,337 | Girard Township IL | 2,100 | $52K | 26.5% | 1.9% | 9% | C |
| 3,338 | Murphys CA | 1,951 | $74K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 12% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Calvert City, 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 Calvert City: questions
What is the median household income in Calvert City?
$48,906 (±$23,631) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Calvert City?
12.8%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Calvert City?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Calvert City work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paducah (21%, 14 mi), Benton (6%, 14 mi), Lexington (2%, 226 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Calvert City walkable?
Calvert City is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Calvert City without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Calvert City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Calvert City
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.