Mays Lick Consolidated School · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Mays Lick commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Mays Lick has 22 jobs; 78 of its residents have a job. Only 4% work in Mays Lick itself; outside it, Maysville draws the most (28%, 9 miles). Home is the office for 100% of workers; Kentucky has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Mays Lick
On a workday 75 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 32 people are in Mays Lick on a workday afternoon, 64% 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.
Where Mays Lick’s working residents head each day
Where Mays Lick clocks in
28% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Mays Lick
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mays Lick, 2013 → 2023: 16 → 22. 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 Mays Lick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mays Lick
of Mays Lick workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Mays Lick
About 35% 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.
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 Mays Lick: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mays Lick?
58.0%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mays Lick work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Maysville (28%, 9 mi), Lexington (13%, 47 mi), Brooksville (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mays Lick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mays Lick
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.