Photo: Ryan Emmick · CC BY-SA 4.0Hawesville has lower household incomes than 88% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Hawesville is better than 6% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (B−). 29.8% of residents live below the poverty line, against 16.1% across Kentucky. Home is the office for 2% 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
The commute and the jobs: Hawesville in brief
Hawesville makes and builds things
64% of the jobs based in Hawesville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hawesville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Hawesville is where the jobs are
Hawesville has 662 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A lot of Hawesville workers cross into Indiana
29% of Hawesville workers work outside Kentucky, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, Tell City (6%), Tobin Township (4%) and Evansville (4%) are among the top workplaces. 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 419 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Hawesville’s grade explained
Job access by car holds Hawesville’s grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Hawesville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hawesville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Goods jobs make up 64% of work in Hawesville
662 jobs are based in Hawesville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hawesville, 2013 → 2023: 513 → 662. 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 Hawesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Hawesville fills up on a workday
On a workday 373 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 616 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Hawesville on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 Hawesville’s workers come from
Where Hawesville clocks in
14% of workers
6% 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.
Hawesville’s commute takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hawesville workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 487 commuters (the 2% 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.
Half of Hawesville commutes less than 18 miles
About 19% 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.
Most trips from Hawesville start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 498 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.1% of Hawesville households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hawesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,749th of 3,133: where Hawesville ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 46 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 58 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
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| 78 | Verona KY | 1,394 | $145K | 3.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,747 | Basin City WA | 1,176 | $60K | 20.0% | 25.9% | 4% | D |
| 2,748 | Mansfield AR | 1,066 | $53K | 23.5% | 6.8% | 6% | D |
| 2,749 | Hawesville KY | 1,017 | $50K | 29.8% | 4.0% | 11% | D |
| 2,750 | Freeman SD | 1,305 | $57K | 20.9% | 2.5% | 25% | D |
| 2,751 | Washington Township IN | 1,017 | $54K | 19.7% | 7.6% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hawesville, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
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 Hawesville: questions
What is the median household income in Hawesville?
$50,000 (±$21,039) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hawesville?
29.8%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hawesville?
17 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hawesville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owensboro (14%, 22 mi), Tell City (6%, 4 mi), Tobin Township (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hawesville walkable?
Hawesville is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hawesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hawesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hawesville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.