Photo: Micah Drushal from Nashville, TN · CC BY 2.0Fancy Farm has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Fancy Farm has 12 jobs, and 165 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Fancy Farm for work; outside it, Mayfield is the main destination (26%, 9 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 10% for Kentucky as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Fancy Farm
On a workday 165 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Fancy Farm on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
Where the trip to work from Fancy Farm ends
Where Fancy Farm clocks in
26% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Fancy Farm
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fancy Farm, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 12. 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 Fancy Farm’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Fancy Farm takes 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 Fancy Farm workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 105 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Fancy Farm commutes less than 19 miles
About 18% 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.
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 Fancy Farm: questions
What is the median household income in Fancy Farm?
$60,268 (±$15,537) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fancy Farm?
31.6%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fancy Farm?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fancy Farm work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mayfield (26%, 9 mi), Paducah (7%, 20 mi), Murray (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fancy Farm 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 Fancy Farm, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fancy Farm
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.