Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Perryville works elsewhere
Perryville has 59 jobs, and 325 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Perryville; the top destination outside it is Danville (36%, 10 miles). Working from home is the commute for 4% 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
What sets Perryville apart on work
Perryville and Danville trade workers both ways
Danville is the top workplace for Perryville residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Perryville come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Perryville is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Perryville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Perryville has about 540 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 325 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Commuting out of Perryville: the destinations
Where Perryville clocks in
36% of workers
6% 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.
How a workday changes Perryville
On a workday 321 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Perryville on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
What Perryville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perryville, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 59. 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 Perryville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Perryville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perryville workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 434 commuters (the 4% 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.
How far Perryville’s workers travel
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 Perryville: questions
What is the median household income in Perryville?
$62,552 (±$13,559) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perryville?
10.8%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perryville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perryville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Danville (36%, 10 mi), Lexington (12%, 38 mi), Harrodsburg (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Perryville 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 Perryville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perryville
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.