Photo: User:Nitefirre · CC BY-SA 3.0Pathfork has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
2 jobs are based in Pathfork for 82 working residents. Hardly any work in Pathfork itself; outside it, Lexington draws the most (7%, 104 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Kentucky 10%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Pathfork by day
On a workday 82 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Pathfork on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 people from Pathfork work
Where Pathfork clocks in
6% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 100% of the jobs in Pathfork
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Pathfork’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pathfork
of Pathfork workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 175 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Pathfork
About 33% 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 Pathfork: questions
What is the median household income in Pathfork?
$49,571 (±$9,165) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pathfork?
21.1%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pathfork work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lexington (7%, 104 mi), Harlan (6%, 10 mi), Hazard (5%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pathfork without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pathfork, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pathfork
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.