Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Oneida commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
5 jobs are based in Oneida for 41 working residents. Only 2% stay in Oneida for work; outside it, Lexington is the main destination (12%, 69 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Oneida by day
On a workday 40 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13 people are in Oneida on a workday afternoon, 73% 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 Oneida’s working residents head each day
Where Oneida clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
What Oneida’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oneida, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 5. 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 Oneida’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Oneida
of Oneida workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7 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.
Oneida’s commute, mile by mile
About 37% 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 Oneida: questions
Where do people who live in Oneida work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lexington (12%, 69 mi), Manchester (7%, 11 mi), London (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oneida, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oneida
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.