Mount Zion Covered Bridge · Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Chaplin commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 3% work in Chaplin; the top destination outside it is Bardstown (25%, 14 miles). Chaplin has 99 jobs, against 228 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Kentucky 10%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Chaplin, in brief
Chaplin workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 24 across Kentucky. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Chaplin workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 10% across Kentucky. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 228 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A commute of about 37 minutes in Chaplin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chaplin workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 163 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.
In and out of Chaplin on a workday
On a workday 221 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 92 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Chaplin on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer 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 Chaplin’s working residents head each day
Where Chaplin clocks in
25% 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.
The kinds of work in Chaplin
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chaplin, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 99. 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 Chaplin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Chaplin
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 Chaplin: questions
What is the median household income in Chaplin?
$94,352 (±$22,816) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chaplin?
22.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chaplin?
37 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chaplin work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bardstown (25%, 14 mi), Louisville (11%, 31 mi), Elizabethtown (4%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chaplin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chaplin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chaplin
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.