Masonville has some of the lowest unemployment in the country, with hardly anyone out of work
The two grades for Masonville are B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Hardly any stay in Masonville for work; outside it, Owensboro is the main destination (41%, 7 miles). 3% of workers work from home, against 10% across Kentucky.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Masonville: the gist
Fewer jobs are based in Masonville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Masonville fell from 379 in 2014 to 60 in 2024, −84%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Masonville is a place people come home to
There are 60 jobs based in Masonville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Masonville has about 1,900 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
41% of Masonville works in Owensboro
430 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Owensboro, 6.8 miles away. That’s 41 times as many as work in Masonville itself. The commute map ↓
Most Masonville residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Masonville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Masonville is better than 72% of U.S. towns, #33 of 142 in Kentucky. Unemployment holds Masonville’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Masonville could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Masonville
60 jobs are based in Masonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Masonville, 2014 → 2024: 379 → 60. 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 Masonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Masonville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,051 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Masonville on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.06 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Masonville’s working residents head each day
Where Masonville clocks in
41% of workers
2% 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.
Masonville’s commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
Masonville’s commute takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Masonville workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,518 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.
Masonville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Masonville is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns, #138 of 142 in Kentucky. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,567 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). 0.0% of Masonville households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Masonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Masonville places 1,177th of 4,882 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Lakeside Park KY | 2,847 | $129K | 1.5% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| 17 | Indian Hills KY | 2,939 | $192K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Windy Hills KY | 2,476 | $131K | 5.1% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,175 | Farmington WI | 3,501 | $83K | 6.5% | 0.6% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,176 | Highland Acres DE | 3,752 | $102K | 6.2% | 4.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,177 | Masonville KY | 2,887 | $83K | 11.1% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,178 | Mountain Home NC | 3,437 | $83K | 11.9% | 0.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,179 | Walla Walla East WA | 2,099 | $90K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 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 Masonville, 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 Masonville: questions
What is the median household income in Masonville?
$83,241 (±$29,195) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Masonville?
11.1%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Masonville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Masonville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owensboro (41%, 7 mi), Evansville (2%, 34 mi), Bowling Green (2%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Masonville walkable?
Masonville is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Masonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Masonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Masonville
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.