Photo: W.marsh · CC BY 2.0Edmonton draws 1,325 commuters a day, with 2.6 jobs for every working resident
There are 1,454 jobs in Edmonton; 562 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Edmonton D; getting around on foot earns it B. Measured by household income, Edmonton is behind 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Edmonton
How Edmonton earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Edmonton is better than 7% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Edmonton’s grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (26.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Edmonton’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, Edmonton could be anywhere from D− to D.
How a workday changes Edmonton
On a workday 433 residents head out to work and 129 work right here.
About 2,600 people are in Edmonton on a workday afternoon, 52% 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 daily trip into Edmonton
Where Edmonton clocks in
18% of workers
9% 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 Edmonton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edmonton, 2013 → 2023: 1,278 → 1,454. 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 Edmonton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Edmonton: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edmonton workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 696 commuters (the 4% 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.
The commute from Edmonton, by distance
About 23% 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.
The commute in Edmonton is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Edmonton is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Edmonton near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 727 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). 13.4% of Edmonton households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edmonton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edmonton places 5,070th of 5,760 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,068 | Trenton GA | 2,236 | $39K | 14.8% | 6.2% | 22% | D |
| 5,069 | Montpelier IN | 1,489 | $45K | 21.2% | 2.5% | 6% | D |
| 5,070 | Edmonton KY | 1,713 | $51K | 26.5% | 5.3% | 23% | D |
| 5,071 | Coal Run Village KY | 1,565 | $53K | 26.3% | 7.1% | 9% | D |
| 5,072 | Ramseur NC | 1,806 | $36K | 47.7% | 6.3% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Edmonton, 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 Edmonton: questions
What is the median household income in Edmonton?
$51,272 (±$9,897) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edmonton?
26.5%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edmonton?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edmonton work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Glasgow (18%, 17 mi), Bowling Green (9%, 45 mi), Horse Cave (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edmonton walkable?
Edmonton is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edmonton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edmonton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edmonton
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.