Ringos Mill Covered Bridge · Photo: Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030) · CC BY-SA 3.0Farmers has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Employers in Farmers report 49 jobs for 87 working residents. Hardly any work in Farmers; the top destination outside it is Morehead (31%, 6 miles). 0% of workers work from home, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Farmers on a workday afternoon
On a workday 87 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 49 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Farmers on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 people from Farmers work
Where Farmers clocks in
31% of workers
2% 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 Farmers
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Farmers, 2013 → 2023: 40 → 49. 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 Farmers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Farmers: about 41 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Farmers workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 56 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Farmers
About 36% 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 Farmers: questions
What is the poverty rate in Farmers?
26.9%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Farmers?
41 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Farmers work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morehead (31%, 6 mi), Lexington (8%, 50 mi), Owingsville (2%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Farmers 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 Farmers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Farmers
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.