Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Households in Silver Grove have lower incomes than those in 91% of U.S. towns
Hardly any stay in Silver Grove for work; outside it, Cincinnati is the main destination (17%, 9 miles). 7.5% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 16.1% for Kentucky as a whole. For jobs and income Silver Grove is better than 49% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The four measures behind Silver Grove’s grade
Job access by car holds Silver Grove’s grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($46,595, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (8.0%) is left out: Silver Grove’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, Silver Grove could be anywhere from C to B+.
Silver Grove by day and by night
On a workday 476 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 263 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Silver Grove on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.56 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.
The towns that employ Silver Grove’s residents
Where Silver Grove clocks in
17% of workers
5% 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.
67% of the jobs in Silver Grove pay over $3,333 a month
266 jobs are based in Silver Grove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver Grove, 2013 → 2023: 174 → 266. 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 Silver Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Silver Grove: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Silver Grove workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 552 commuters (the 5% 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 Silver Grove goes to work
About 18% 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.
For most of Silver Grove, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Kentucky.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 582 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.5% of Silver Grove households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Silver Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Silver Grove is 1,921st among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 43 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 1,919 | Hiawatha Township MI | 1,326 | $79K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,920 | Richfield WI | 1,652 | $82K | 8.6% | 3.1% | 1% | B− |
| 1,921 | Silver Grove KY | 1,333 | $47K | 7.5% | 8.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,922 | Atwater MN | 1,090 | $71K | 5.5% | 8.7% | 4% | B− |
| 1,923 | Unity NH | 1,528 | $88K | 6.3% | 1.0% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Silver Grove, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
Silver Grove and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Cold Spring (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Silver Grove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Grove | – | B− | C− | 24 min | $46,595 |
| Melbourne | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Cold Spring | 5% | B+ | A− | 22 min | $75,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Melbourne: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Silver Grove’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 Silver Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Silver Grove?
$46,595 (±$3,819) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Silver Grove?
7.5%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Silver Grove?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Silver Grove work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cincinnati (17%, 9 mi), Covington (5%, 6 mi), Alexandria (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Silver Grove walkable?
Silver Grove is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Silver Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Silver Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver Grove
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.