Photo: Brian Stansberry (photographer) · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Kuttawa has 3.3 jobs per working resident, and 579 people come in to work
For 3% of workers, the job is at home; Kentucky has 10%. 591 jobs are based in Kuttawa, against 177 working residents. A typical one-way commute lasts 28 minutes (Kentucky 24, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Kuttawa: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 165 residents head out to work and 12 work right here.
About 1,100 people are in Kuttawa on a workday afternoon, 62% 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.
The towns that send workers to Kuttawa
Where Kuttawa clocks in
10% of workers
5% 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.
Kuttawa is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kuttawa, 2013 → 2023: 469 → 591. 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 Kuttawa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Kuttawa spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kuttawa workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 179 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.
How far Kuttawa goes to work
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.
Kuttawa and its neighbors: 16% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Eddyville. Darker towns draw more of Kuttawa’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Kuttawa: questions
What is the median household income in Kuttawa?
$78,214 (±$22,118) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kuttawa?
10.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kuttawa?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kuttawa work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eddyville (16%, 2 mi), Princeton (10%, 13 mi), Benton (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kuttawa 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 Kuttawa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kuttawa
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.