Harrods Creek Baptist Church and Rev. William Kellar House · Photo: Doncram · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Crestwood works elsewhere
Crestwood has 1,644 jobs, against 2,891 working residents. The two grades for Crestwood are A for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Crestwood is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Crestwood: the gist
The better-paid jobs are outside Crestwood
68% of Crestwood residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 41% of the jobs based in Crestwood pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Crestwood and Louisville trade workers both ways
Louisville is the top workplace for Crestwood residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Crestwood come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
33% of the jobs based in Crestwood are held by workers 29 or younger, against 20% of Crestwood’s own working residents. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Crestwood
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crestwood is better than 86% of U.S. towns, #16 of 142 in Kentucky. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (8.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crestwood could be anywhere from B to A+.
The kinds of work in Crestwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crestwood, 2014 → 2024: 1,253 → 1,644. 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 Crestwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
20% of working residents work in Louisville
Where Crestwood clocks in
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.
How many people are in Crestwood by day
On a workday 2,803 residents head out to work, 88 work right here, and 1,556 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Crestwood on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The trip to work from Crestwood: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crestwood workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,043 commuters (the 14% 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 many miles Crestwood commutes
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.
In Crestwood, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crestwood is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #105 of 142 in Kentucky. 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 3,530 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). 0.5% of Crestwood households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crestwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Crestwood is 547th of 3,283 U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Union KY | 7,937 | $137K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 173 | Edgewood KY | 8,503 | $119K | 3.8% | 2.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 278 | Fort Wright KY | 6,240 | $105K | 3.0% | 3.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 545 | Whitemarsh Island GA | 6,886 | $102K | 3.9% | 3.3% | 4% | A |
| 546 | Monticello IL | 6,080 | $99K | 5.7% | 0.5% | 23% | A |
| 547 | Crestwood KY | 6,582 | $108K | 8.1% | 2.7% | 3% | A |
| 548 | Swarthmore PA | 6,561 | $152K | 1.8% | 7.7% | 9% | A |
| 549 | Mayo MD | 8,694 | $155K | 4.6% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,283 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Crestwood, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
Crestwood and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Crestwood workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crestwood | – | A | C | 27 min | $108,046 |
| Pewee Valley | under 2% | A+ | A− | 24 min | $156,979 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Crestwood’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Crestwood: questions
What is the median household income in Crestwood?
$108,046 (±$19,543) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crestwood?
8.1%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crestwood?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crestwood work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (20%, 14 mi), Jeffersontown (6%, 11 mi), Buckner (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Crestwood walkable?
Crestwood is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crestwood 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 Crestwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crestwood
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.