Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Gamaliel has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Only 3% work in Gamaliel itself; outside it, Tompkinsville draws the most (17%, 7 miles). Employers in Gamaliel report 86 jobs for 184 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 10% across Kentucky.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Gamaliel
On a workday 179 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Gamaliel on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Gamaliel goes to work
Where Gamaliel clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Goods, not services: 60% of the jobs in Gamaliel
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gamaliel, 2013 → 2023: 154 → 86. 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 Gamaliel’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Gamaliel spends getting to work: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gamaliel workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 145 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.
How far it is to work from Gamaliel
About 24% 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 Gamaliel: questions
What is the median household income in Gamaliel?
$49,375 (±$12,516) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gamaliel?
19.0%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gamaliel?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gamaliel work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tompkinsville (17%, 7 mi), Bowling Green (9%, 42 mi), Scottsville (8%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gamaliel without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gamaliel, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gamaliel
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.