Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMortons Gap has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Mortons Gap for work; outside it, Madisonville is the main destination (31%, 7 miles). There are 24 jobs in Mortons Gap, against 250 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 10% for Kentucky as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mortons Gap, in a few figures
Mortons Gap is a place people come home to
There are 24 jobs based in Mortons Gap, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mortons Gap has about 500 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Mortons Gap and Madisonville trade workers both ways
Madisonville is the top workplace for Mortons Gap residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Mortons Gap come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Mortons Gap are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 24 across Kentucky. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Kentucky worker. Time on the road ↓
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 250 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Mortons Gap on a workday afternoon
On a workday 250 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 500 people are in Mortons Gap on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Out of Mortons Gap to work: where people go
Where Mortons Gap clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Mortons Gap
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mortons Gap workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 167 commuters (the 0% 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 Mortons Gap’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mortons Gap, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 24. 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 Mortons Gap’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Mortons Gap to work
About 20% 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 Mortons Gap: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mortons Gap?
24.6%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mortons Gap?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mortons Gap work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madisonville (31%, 7 mi), Hopkinsville (7%, 28 mi), Owensboro (4%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mortons Gap without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mortons Gap, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mortons Gap
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.