Households in Muldraugh have lower incomes than those in 73% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Muldraugh are C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Below the poverty line: 22.5% of residents, next to 16.1% for Kentucky as a whole. 26% of workers have no commute at all, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Muldraugh apart on work
Muldraugh’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Muldraugh is Louisville, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 20% of working residents (84) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Muldraugh workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 24 across Kentucky. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 107 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Muldraugh makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Muldraugh are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Muldraugh residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
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; with 423 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Muldraugh’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Muldraugh is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Muldraugh’s grade up (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Muldraugh’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Muldraugh could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The distance from Muldraugh to work
About 16% 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.
Getting to work from Muldraugh takes about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Muldraugh workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 384 commuters (the 26% 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.
Muldraugh makes things: 57% of its jobs are in goods
342 jobs are based in Muldraugh.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Muldraugh, 2014 → 2024: 223 → 342. 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 Muldraugh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Muldraugh by day
On a workday 406 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 325 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 (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
20% of working residents work in Louisville
Where Muldraugh 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.
Most trips from Muldraugh start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Muldraugh is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Kentucky.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 518 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). 10.0% of Muldraugh households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Muldraugh’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Muldraugh is 1,749th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Verona KY | 1,394 | $145K | 3.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,747 | Lake View IA | 1,122 | $69K | 8.8% | 0.6% | 17% | C |
| 1,748 | Le Roy Township MI | 1,291 | $68K | 7.9% | 14.8% | 10% | C |
| 1,749 | Muldraugh KY | 1,009 | $61K | 22.5% | 5.7% | 4% | C |
| 1,750 | Lovell ME | 1,155 | $81K | 10.0% | 3.1% | 5% | C |
| 1,751 | Moffatt Township MI | 1,170 | $70K | 7.9% | 12.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Muldraugh, 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 Muldraugh: questions
What is the median household income in Muldraugh?
$60,508 (±$21,412) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Muldraugh?
22.5%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Muldraugh?
38 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Muldraugh work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (20%, 25 mi), Elizabethtown (7%, 17 mi), Shepherdsville (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Muldraugh walkable?
Muldraugh is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Muldraugh without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Muldraugh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Muldraugh
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.