Seneca Gardens has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any work in Seneca Gardens itself; outside it, Louisville draws the most (10%, 3 miles). Seneca Gardens has 17 jobs for 258 working residents. For 23% of workers, the job is at home, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Seneca Gardens
Most Seneca Gardens residents work close to home
81% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Seneca Gardens is a place people come home to
There are 17 jobs based in Seneca Gardens, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Seneca Gardens has about 440 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Seneca Gardens works from home
23% of Seneca Gardens 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 258 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Seneca Gardens
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.
Seneca Gardens quiets down on a workday
On a workday 258 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 440 people are in Seneca Gardens on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
About 19 minutes each way for Seneca Gardens’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seneca Gardens workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 207 commuters (the 23% 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.
Out of Seneca Gardens to work: where people go
Where Seneca Gardens clocks in
4% 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.
71% of the jobs in Seneca Gardens pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seneca Gardens, 2014 → 2024: 8 → 17. 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 Seneca Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Seneca Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Seneca Gardens?
$120,000 (±$35,867) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seneca Gardens?
2.4%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seneca Gardens?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seneca Gardens work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (10%, 3 mi), Watterson Park (5%, 2 mi), Jeffersontown (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Seneca Gardens 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 Seneca Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seneca Gardens
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.