Lynnview has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Lynnview has 149 jobs for 494 working residents. Hardly any stay in Lynnview for work; outside it, Louisville is the main destination (27%, 3 miles). Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average, next to 24 for Kentucky and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lynnview and work: the main findings
Most Lynnview residents work close to home
74% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. How far ↓
Lynnview and Louisville trade workers both ways
Louisville is the top workplace for Lynnview residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Lynnview come from (37% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Lynnview is a place people come home to
There are 149 jobs based in Lynnview, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lynnview has about 620 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 494 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where in the region Lynnview works
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.
Where Lynnview goes to work
Where Lynnview clocks in
6% 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.
How many people are in Lynnview by day
On a workday 491 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 146 people come in from elsewhere.
About 620 people are in Lynnview on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Lynnview
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lynnview, 2013 → 2023: 239 → 149. 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 Lynnview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, about the KY average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lynnview workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 268 commuters (the 11% 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.
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 Lynnview: questions
What is the median household income in Lynnview?
$55,833 (±$10,246) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lynnview?
12.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lynnview?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lynnview work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (27%, 3 mi), Watterson Park (6%, 2 mi), Jeffersontown (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lynnview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lynnview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lynnview
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.