Sherman Tavern · Photo: MandyMarie · CC BY-SA 3.0Dry Ridge has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 1,790 people commute in to work
1,873 jobs are based in Dry Ridge; 1,011 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Dry Ridge is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (A−). Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Dry Ridge
Dry Ridge is where the jobs are
Dry Ridge has 1,873 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
37% of the jobs based in Dry Ridge are held by workers 29 or younger, against 26% of Dry Ridge’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Dry Ridge’s grade explained
Job access by car holds Dry Ridge’s grade up (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dry Ridge could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Dry Ridge fills up on a workday
On a workday 928 residents head out to work and 83 work right here.
About 3,100 people are in Dry Ridge on a workday afternoon, 38% more 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.
The kinds of work in Dry Ridge
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dry Ridge, 2013 → 2023: 1,465 → 1,873. 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 Dry Ridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Dry Ridge: where workers come from
Where Dry Ridge clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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 daily trip from Dry Ridge: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dry Ridge workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,078 commuters (the 6% 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 Dry Ridge commutes
About 16% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Dry Ridge
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,142 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). 21.1% of Dry Ridge households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dry Ridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Dry Ridge ranks: 4,325th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Lakeside Park KY | 2,847 | $129K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Indian Hills KY | 2,939 | $192K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,323 | Shippen Township PA | 1,805 | $62K | 14.5% | 7.6% | 14% | D |
| 4,324 | Steeleville IL | 1,883 | $60K | 22.5% | 3.7% | 22% | D |
| 4,325 | Dry Ridge KY | 2,249 | $56K | 21.9% | 6.9% | 8% | D |
| 4,326 | Weatherly PA | 2,546 | $52K | 22.2% | 7.3% | 9% | D |
| 4,327 | Everett Township MI | 1,994 | $57K | 14.1% | 10.7% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Dry Ridge, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
How Dry Ridge compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Williamstown (9%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dry Ridge workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Ridge | – | D | A− | 22 min | $55,995 |
| Williamstown | 9% | B+ | C− | 23 min | $95,050 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dry Ridge’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 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 Dry Ridge: questions
What is the median household income in Dry Ridge?
$55,995 (±$10,309) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dry Ridge?
21.9%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dry Ridge?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dry Ridge work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (10%, 21 mi), Williamstown (9%, 4 mi), Hebron (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dry Ridge walkable?
Dry Ridge is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dry Ridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dry Ridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dry Ridge
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.