Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Sebree are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns
Only 4% work in Sebree; the top destination outside it is Henderson (12%, 17 miles). Below the poverty line: 6.9% of residents, where Kentucky as a whole has 16.1%. For jobs and income Sebree is better than 40% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Sebree: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Sebree’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($58,707, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Sebree’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, Sebree could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Sebree
On a workday 528 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 385 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.74 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.
Where Sebree goes to work
Where Sebree clocks in
12% 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.
Goods jobs make up 30% of work in Sebree
408 jobs are based in Sebree.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sebree, 2013 → 2023: 335 → 408. 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 Sebree’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Sebree
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sebree workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 728 commuters (the 3% 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 Sebree’s workers travel
About 22% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Sebree start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 751 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). 6.2% of Sebree households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sebree’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sebree ranks: 2,704th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,702 | Owensville IN | 1,332 | $57K | 6.2% | 5.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,703 | Mediapolis IA | 1,660 | $76K | 9.7% | 1.9% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,704 | Sebree KY | 1,546 | $59K | 6.9% | 0.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,705 | Pecos NM | 1,375 | $88K | 9.7% | 7.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,706 | Meade Center Township KS | 1,674 | $75K | 6.1% | 0.0% | 36% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Sebree, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
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 Sebree: questions
What is the median household income in Sebree?
$58,707 (±$15,253) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sebree?
6.9%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sebree?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sebree work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Henderson (12%, 17 mi), Madisonville (9%, 18 mi), Dixon (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sebree walkable?
Sebree is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sebree without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sebree, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sebree
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.