Wooldridge-Rose House · Photo: TEDD LiGGETT · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Pewee Valley earn more than those in 96% of U.S. towns
20% of workers have no commute at all, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%. Below the poverty line: 3.0% of residents, against 16.1% across Kentucky. Pewee Valley grades A+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Pewee Valley stands out on work
Pewee Valley and Louisville trade workers both ways
Louisville is the top workplace for Pewee Valley residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Pewee Valley come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Pewee Valley than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Pewee Valley fell from 398 in 2013 to 256 in 2023, −36%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A lot of Pewee Valley works from home
20% of Pewee Valley workers work from home, against 10% across Kentucky. Time on the road ↓
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 745 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Pewee Valley’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Pewee Valley is among the top U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Pewee Valley’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Pewee Valley’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, Pewee Valley could be anywhere from A to A+.
23% of working residents work in Louisville
Where Pewee Valley 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Pewee Valley
256 jobs are based in Pewee Valley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pewee Valley, 2013 → 2023: 398 → 256. 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 Pewee Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Pewee Valley: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pewee Valley workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 539 commuters (the 20% 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.
In and out of Pewee Valley on a workday
On a workday 740 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 251 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Pewee Valley on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.34 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Miles to work from Pewee Valley
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Pewee Valley
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pewee Valley is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 7.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 672 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). 0.0% of Pewee Valley households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pewee Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pewee Valley places 35th of 5,760 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Ames Lake WA | 1,245 | $250K | 1.1% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| 34 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| 35 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 36 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 37 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Pewee Valley, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
The towns around Pewee Valley
The biggest share goes to Crestwood (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pewee Valley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pewee Valley | – | A+ | A− | 24 min | $156,979 |
| Crestwood | 2% | A | C | 27 min | $108,046 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pewee Valley’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Pewee Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Pewee Valley?
$156,979 (±$23,431) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pewee Valley?
3.0%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pewee Valley?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pewee Valley work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (23%, 12 mi), Jeffersontown (7%, 9 mi), St. Matthews (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pewee Valley walkable?
Pewee Valley is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pewee Valley 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 Pewee Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pewee Valley
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. 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.