Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Fountain Run draws 213 commuters a day, with 3.3 jobs for every working resident
Only 3% stay in Fountain Run for work; outside it, Tompkinsville is the main destination (14%, 15 miles). There are 215 jobs in Fountain Run, and 66 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 4% 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
Fountain Run nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 64 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 370 people are in Fountain Run on a workday afternoon, 69% 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.
Where Fountain Run’s workers come from
Where Fountain Run clocks in
14% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Most jobs in Fountain Run are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fountain Run, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 215. 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 Fountain Run’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Fountain Run: about 17 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fountain Run workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 111 commuters (the 3% 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 Fountain Run
About 30% 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 Fountain Run: questions
What is the median household income in Fountain Run?
$80,045 (±$58,814) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fountain Run?
29.8%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fountain Run?
17 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fountain Run work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tompkinsville (14%, 15 mi), Gamaliel (6%, 11 mi), Bowling Green (6%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fountain Run without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fountain Run, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fountain Run
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.