Jobs, income and commuting in Cannonsburg, KY
For jobs and income Cannonsburg is better than 45% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (C−). Home is the office for 0% of workers; Kentucky has 10%. Only 3% work in Cannonsburg itself; outside it, Ashland draws the most (22%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Cannonsburg apart
Cannonsburg is where the jobs are
Cannonsburg has 543 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Cannonsburg and Ashland trade workers both ways
Ashland is the top workplace for Cannonsburg residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Cannonsburg come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
53% of the jobs in Cannonsburg are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 334 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Cannonsburg’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Cannonsburg’s grade.
Unemployment (10.3%) is left out: Cannonsburg’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cannonsburg could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Cannonsburg by day and by night
On a workday 325 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 534 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Cannonsburg on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
1.6 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Cannonsburg
Where Cannonsburg clocks in
22% of workers
8% 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 Cannonsburg: what the 543 are
543 jobs are based in Cannonsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cannonsburg, 2014 → 2024: 619 → 543. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cannonsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way for Cannonsburg’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cannonsburg workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 494 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 Cannonsburg
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Cannonsburg is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 494 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). 8.8% of Cannonsburg households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cannonsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cannonsburg next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 1,432nd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 43 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 76 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,430 | Gibson Township PA | 1,010 | $87K | 6.7% | 4.0% | 7% | B− |
| 1,431 | Palmyra Township PA | 1,257 | $72K | 4.7% | 5.7% | 3% | B− |
| 1,432 | Cannonsburg KY | 1,129 | $76K | 11.4% | 10.3% | 3% | B− |
| 1,433 | Milton Township KS | 1,034 | $54K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 9% | B− |
| 1,434 | Portage Township OH | 1,202 | $85K | 11.9% | 2.4% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Cannonsburg, 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 2024, 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 Cannonsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Cannonsburg?
$76,450 (±$19,311) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cannonsburg?
11.4%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cannonsburg?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cannonsburg work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashland (22%, 6 mi), Huntington (8%, 14 mi), Catlettsburg (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Cannonsburg walkable?
Cannonsburg is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cannonsburg 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 Cannonsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cannonsburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.