Most of Pleasant Ridge commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Pleasant Ridge itself; outside it, Owensboro draws the most (36%, 13 miles). Pleasant Ridge has 7 jobs, and 235 of its residents work somewhere. 16% of workers work from home, next to 10% for Kentucky as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Pleasant Ridge apart on work
Pleasant Ridge and Owensboro trade workers both ways
Owensboro is the top workplace for Pleasant Ridge residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Pleasant Ridge come from (43% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Pleasant Ridge is a place people come home to
There are 7 jobs based in Pleasant Ridge, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pleasant Ridge has about 260 people in it, 47% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 235 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Pleasant Ridge’s working residents head each day
Where Pleasant Ridge clocks in
36% of workers
7% of workers
3% 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.
In and out of Pleasant Ridge on a workday
On a workday 234 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Pleasant Ridge on a workday afternoon, 47% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Pleasant Ridge
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant Ridge, 2014 → 2024: 5 → 7. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Ridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pleasant Ridge
of Pleasant Ridge workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 83 commuters (the 16% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Pleasant Ridge
About 17% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Pleasant Ridge: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant Ridge?
$41,798 (±$4,586) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant Ridge?
25.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pleasant Ridge work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owensboro (36%, 13 mi), Hartford (7%, 11 mi), Bowling Green (3%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Pleasant Ridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pleasant Ridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant Ridge
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.