Plantation has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Working from home is the commute for 26% of workers, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%. Employers in Plantation report 178 jobs, and 383 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Plantation itself; outside it, Louisville draws the most (23%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Plantation
Most Plantation residents work close to home
77% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. Only 7% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Plantation and Louisville trade workers both ways
Louisville is the top workplace for Plantation residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Plantation come from (37% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Plantation works from home
26% of Plantation 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 383 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Near or far: the trip to work from Plantation
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.
Where Plantation goes to work
Where Plantation clocks in
7% 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.
From Plantation, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Plantation workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 381 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.
Plantation on a workday afternoon
On a workday 381 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Plantation on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Plantation
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Plantation, 2013 → 2023: 83 → 178. 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 Plantation’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Around Plantation: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Plantation workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plantation | – | — | — | 19 min | $82,167 |
| Briarwood | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Briarwood: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Plantation’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 Plantation: questions
What is the median household income in Plantation?
$82,167 (±$7,725) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Plantation?
7.2%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Plantation?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Plantation work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (23%, 7 mi), Jeffersontown (7%, 6 mi), St. Matthews (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Plantation without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Plantation, from the people who make the trip.
More of Plantation
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.