Photo: W.marsh · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Mount Olivet
2% of workers have no commute at all; Kentucky has 10%. About one in ten stay in Mount Olivet for work; outside it, Cynthiana is the main destination (12%, 18 miles). Commuters spend 31 minutes getting to work on average, where Kentucky has 24 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Mount Olivet for work, and who comes in
On a workday 109 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 130 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).
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 Mount Olivet to work: where people go
Where Mount Olivet clocks in
12% of workers
10% 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 health care, schools and offices in Mount Olivet
141 jobs are based in Mount Olivet.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Olivet, 2013 → 2023: 140 → 141. 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 Mount Olivet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Mount Olivet
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Olivet workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 48 commuters (the 2% 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.
The distance from Mount Olivet to work
About 23% 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 Mount Olivet: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mount Olivet?
31.8%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Olivet?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Olivet work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cynthiana (12%, 18 mi), Maysville (10%, 15 mi), Lexington (8%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Olivet without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Olivet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Olivet
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.