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Jobs & commute in Cerulean

Cerulean has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each

Home is the office for 46% of workers, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%. Cerulean has 5 jobs, against 107 working residents. Only 2% stay in Cerulean for work; outside it, Hopkinsville is the main destination (28%, 15 miles).

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

Day and night

The daily commute in and out of Cerulean

On a workday 105 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.

105live here, work elsewhere
2live and work here
3work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night260
Workday160
260live here− 110head out to work+ 3come in to work= 160on a workday

About 160 people are in Cerulean on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.05jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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 commute map

Where people from Cerulean work

Montgomery: 1 residents work here (1%)Cadiz: 15 residents work here (14%)Princeton: 11 residents work here (10%)Calvert City: 2 residents work here (2%)ShepherdsvillePaducah: 3 residents work here (3%)Hopkinsville: 30 residents work here (28%)Lexington: 2 residents work here (2%)Clarksville: 3 residents work here (3%)Nashville: 2 residents work here (2%)CeruleanHopkinsvilleCadizPrincetonPaducahClarksvilleCalvert CityCerulean
1
Hopkinsville15.4 mi away
28%30
2
Cadiz8.3 mi away
14%15
3
Princeton14.3 mi away
10%11
4
Paducah52 mi away
3%3
5
Clarksville, TN33.5 mi away
3%3
6
Calvert City38.2 mi away
2%2
7
Lexington193.7 mi away
2%2
8
Nashville, TN74.7 mi away
2%2
9
Cerulean (in town)right here
2%2
10
Montgomery, AL328.5 mi away
1%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
34%36
The top trips

Where Cerulean clocks in

Lines 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 jobs

80% of the jobs in Cerulean pay over $3,333 a month

Jobs based in CeruleanJobs Cerulean residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms20%41%
Trade, transport & utilities40%14%
Services: health, schools, offices40%45%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less20%14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month0%36%
Over $3,333 a month80%50%

Who does it

29 or younger0%22%
30 to 5480%53%
55 and older20%24%
+150%

Jobs based in Cerulean, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 5. 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 Cerulean’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Time on the road

Working from home in Cerulean

Working from home
46%

of Cerulean workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.

About 5 in 10
How Cerulean gets to work
85%Drive alone
15%Walk

Share of the 75 commuters (the 46% 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

How many miles Cerulean commutes

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miHopkinsville: 28% · 15.4 miCadiz: 14% · 8.3 miPrinceton: 10% · 14.3 miPaducah: 3% · 52 miClarksville: 3% · 33.5 miCalvert City: 2% · 38.2 miLexington: 2% · 193.7 miNashville: 2% · 74.7 miMontgomery: 1% · 328.5 miHopkinsville 28%Cadiz 14%Princeton 10%Paducah 3%Clarksville 3%Cerulean
CeruleanTop destinations (size = commuters)
19%Under 10 mi20 residents
45%10–24 mi47 residents
10%25–50 mi10 residents
27%Over 50 mi28 residents

About 27% 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.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Cerulean: questions

What is the median household income in Cerulean?

$60,096 (±$44,559) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Cerulean?

45.6%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

Where do people who live in Cerulean work?

2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hopkinsville (28%, 15 mi), Cadiz (14%, 8 mi), Princeton (10%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Can you get around Cerulean without a car?

0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Cerulean, from the people who make the trip.

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Beyond the commute

More of Cerulean

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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.