Gratz has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
30% of workers work from home, against 10% across Kentucky. Employers in Gratz report 3 jobs, against 27 working residents. Hardly any work in Gratz itself; outside it, Owenton draws the most (15%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Gratz
On a workday 27 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 42 people are in Gratz on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 Gratz goes to work
Where Gratz clocks in
15% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Gratz
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gratz, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 3. 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 Gratz’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Gratz spends getting to work: about 39 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gratz workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16 commuters (the 30% 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.
Where in the region Gratz works
About 26% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Gratz workers work outside Kentucky. The job records count 15% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Gratz: questions
What is the median household income in Gratz?
$98,958 (±$4,930) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gratz?
0.0%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gratz?
39 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gratz work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owenton (15%, 7 mi), Frankfort (11%, 20 mi), Hebron (7%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gratz 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 Gratz, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gratz
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.