Rolling Fields has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Rolling Fields has 71 jobs for 267 working residents. Hardly any stay in Rolling Fields for work; outside it, Louisville is the main destination (16%, 6 miles). For 21% 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
Getting to work from Rolling Fields, in brief
Most Rolling Fields residents work close to home
81% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Rolling Fields and Louisville trade workers both ways
Louisville is the top workplace for Rolling Fields residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Rolling Fields come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Rolling Fields is a place people come home to
There are 71 jobs based in Rolling Fields, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rolling Fields has about 540 people in it, 27% 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 267 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many miles Rolling Fields commutes
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 Rolling Fields goes to work
Where Rolling Fields clocks in
8% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Rolling Fields
On a workday 266 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Rolling Fields on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Rolling Fields
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rolling Fields, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 71. 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 Rolling Fields’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Rolling Fields’ commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rolling Fields workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 commuters (the 21% 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.
The towns around Rolling Fields
The biggest share goes to Indian Hills (1%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rolling Fields workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Fields | – | — | — | 19 min | $223,125 |
| Indian Hills | 1% | A+ | B− | 18 min | $192,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rolling Fields’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 Rolling Fields: questions
What is the median household income in Rolling Fields?
$223,125 (±$45,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rolling Fields?
0.5%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rolling Fields?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rolling Fields work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (16%, 6 mi), St. Matthews (8%, 2 mi), Jeffersontown (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Rolling Fields without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rolling Fields, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rolling Fields
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.