Photo: Wikentucky · Public domainLakeview Heights has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Working residents average 23 minutes each way, where Kentucky has 24 and the U.S. 26. Lakeview Heights has 1 jobs; 130 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Lakeview Heights; the top destination outside it is Morehead (36%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Lakeview Heights by day
On a workday 130 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Lakeview Heights on a workday afternoon, 48% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Lakeview Heights goes to work
Where Lakeview Heights clocks in
36% of workers
2% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Lakeview Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakeview Heights, 2014 → 2024: 4 → 1. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lakeview Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Lakeview Heights: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakeview Heights workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 109 commuters (the 10% 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 Lakeview Heights commutes less than 15 miles
About 37% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Lakeview Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Lakeview Heights?
$86,250 (±$32,855) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakeview Heights?
1.5%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakeview Heights?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakeview Heights work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morehead (36%, 4 mi), Lexington (15%, 52 mi), Ashland (2%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Lakeview Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lakeview Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakeview Heights
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.