Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHanson draws 1,290 commuters a day, with 3.7 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% work in Hanson itself; outside it, Madisonville draws the most (34%, 6 miles). There are 1,304 jobs in Hanson; 352 of its residents have a job. The average commute takes 19 minutes each way; Kentucky averages 24, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hanson in brief
Hanson fills up on a workday
Hanson has 1,304 jobs, 3.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,700 people are in town, more than double the 740 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
93% of the jobs in Hanson are in trade, transport and utilities, against 16% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Hanson and Madisonville trade workers both ways
Madisonville is the top workplace for Hanson residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Hanson come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 352 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who works in Hanson, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 338 residents head out to work and 14 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Hanson on a workday afternoon, 128% 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.
What Hanson’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hanson, 2013 → 2023: 678 → 1,304. 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 Hanson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Hanson
Where Hanson clocks in
5% of workers
4% 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.
About 19 minutes each way for Hanson’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hanson workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 306 commuters (the 9% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hanson
About 17% 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 Hanson: questions
What is the median household income in Hanson?
$95,903 (±$5,305) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hanson?
7.6%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hanson?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hanson work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madisonville (34%, 6 mi), Evansville (5%, 40 mi), Owensboro (4%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hanson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hanson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hanson
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.