Doe Run Creek Historic District · Photo: Bedford · Public domainDoe Valley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Doe Valley has 94 jobs, and 899 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Doe Valley is better than 82% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (D−). Household incomes here are higher than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Doe Valley in brief
Doe Valley is a place people come home to
There are 94 jobs based in Doe Valley, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Doe Valley has about 970 people in it, 45% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Doe Valley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Doe Valley is Louisville, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (166) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Doe Valley workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 24 across Kentucky. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 899 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Doe Valley
The poverty rate holds Doe Valley’s grade up (1.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Doe Valley’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, Doe Valley could be anywhere from B+ to A.
The daily commute in and out of Doe Valley
On a workday 885 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 80 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Doe Valley on a workday afternoon, 45% 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.
Half of Doe Valley commutes less than 25 miles
About 17% 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.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Doe Valley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Doe Valley workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 777 commuters (the 10% 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.
18% of working residents work in Louisville
Where Doe Valley clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
Doe Valley is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Doe Valley, 2013 → 2023: 84 → 94. 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 Doe Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Doe Valley start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 862 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). 0.0% of Doe Valley households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Doe Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Doe Valley next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 632nd of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 630 | Diablo CA | 1,232 | $248K | 13.2% | 5.0% | <1% | A− |
| 631 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| 632 | Doe Valley KY | 1,776 | $109K | 1.8% | 5.8% | 2% | A− |
| 633 | Westlake Corner VA | 2,033 | $95K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 12% | A− |
| 634 | Dallas Center IA | 2,042 | $96K | 8.8% | 0.5% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Doe Valley, 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 Doe Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Doe Valley?
$109,135 (±$19,635) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Doe Valley?
1.8%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Doe Valley?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Doe Valley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (18%, 28 mi), Brandenburg (12%, 4 mi), Elizabethtown (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Doe Valley walkable?
Doe Valley is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Doe Valley 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 Doe Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Doe Valley
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.