Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Lewisport works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Lewisport is behind 80% of U.S. towns. Lewisport has 233 jobs, against 752 working residents. Jobs and income earn Lewisport D; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Lewisport: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Lewisport is better than 15% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Lewisport’s grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Lewisport’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, Lewisport could be anywhere from D to C−.
The daily commute in and out of Lewisport
On a workday 727 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 208 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Lewisport on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
21% of working residents work in Owensboro
Where Lewisport clocks in
21% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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 services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lewisport, 2014 → 2024: 263 → 233. 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 Lewisport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Lewisport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lewisport workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 871 commuters (the 4% 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 it is to work from Lewisport
About 21% 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.
Lewisport is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lewisport is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Kentucky.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 904 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). 3.1% of Lewisport households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lewisport’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lewisport ranks: 4,700th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | Union Township OH | 1,434 | $50K | 17.6% | 13.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,699 | Zeigler IL | 1,456 | $42K | 16.2% | 10.4% | 1% | D |
| 4,700 | Lewisport KY | 1,747 | $56K | 21.3% | 5.0% | 3% | D |
| 4,701 | Fennville MI | 1,724 | $59K | 24.9% | 3.4% | 4% | D |
| 4,702 | Gruetli-Laager TN | 1,786 | $47K | 10.2% | 8.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Lewisport, 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 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 Lewisport: questions
What is the median household income in Lewisport?
$55,873 (±$3,730) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lewisport?
21.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lewisport?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lewisport work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owensboro (21%, 17 mi), Hawesville (6%, 8 mi), Tell City (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lewisport walkable?
Lewisport is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lewisport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lewisport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lewisport
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. 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.