Joseph Holt House and Chapel · Photo: Hunter Hawley · CC BY-SA 4.0Cloverport has lower household incomes than 97% of U.S. towns
32.1% of residents live below the poverty line (Kentucky 16.1%). Jobs and income earn Cloverport D−; getting around on foot earns it C+. For 2% of workers, the job is at home, against 10% across Kentucky.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Cloverport apart on work
Cloverport is a place people come home to
There are 79 jobs based in Cloverport, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 360 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Cloverport’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Cloverport’s grade up (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($36,991, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (13.4%) is left out: Cloverport’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cloverport could be anywhere from D− to D.
Who works in Cloverport, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 348 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 67 people come in from elsewhere.
About 870 people are in Cloverport on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.22 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cloverport
About 36% 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.
14% of working residents work in Hardinsburg
Where Cloverport clocks in
14% 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.
Most jobs in Cloverport are in services
79 jobs are based in Cloverport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cloverport, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 79. 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 Cloverport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Cloverport: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cloverport workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 352 commuters (the 2% 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.
Most trips from Cloverport start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cloverport is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 358 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). 6.6% of Cloverport households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cloverport’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Cloverport compares with U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,121 | Vienna IL | 1,352 | $41K | 33.6% | 1.2% | 16% | D− |
| 4,122 | Horton KS | 1,460 | $41K | 22.4% | 5.9% | 16% | D− |
| 4,123 | Cloverport KY | 1,153 | $37K | 32.1% | 13.4% | 3% | D− |
| 4,124 | Glenmora LA | 1,040 | $32K | 36.4% | 9.1% | 2% | D− |
| 4,125 | Ripley OH | 1,597 | $49K | 23.9% | 12.7% | 9% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Cloverport, 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 Cloverport: questions
What is the median household income in Cloverport?
$36,991 (±$7,178) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cloverport?
32.1%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cloverport?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cloverport work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hardinsburg (14%, 11 mi), Louisville (6%, 58 mi), Lexington (5%, 119 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cloverport walkable?
Cloverport is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cloverport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cloverport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cloverport
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.