Most of Slaughters commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers (Kentucky 10%). Slaughters has 9 jobs for 77 working residents. Hardly any work in Slaughters; the top destination outside it is Henderson (13%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Slaughters, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 77 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Slaughters on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
The towns that employ Slaughters’ residents
Where Slaughters clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
Slaughters works in goods: 89% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Slaughters, 2013 → 2023: 349 → 9. 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 Slaughters’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Slaughters’ commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Slaughters workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 commuters (the 0% 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.
Slaughters’ commute, mile by mile
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.
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 Slaughters: questions
What is the median household income in Slaughters?
$35,625 (±$29,053) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Slaughters?
25.1%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Slaughters?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Slaughters work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Henderson (13%, 24 mi), Madisonville (9%, 10 mi), Dixon (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Slaughters without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Slaughters, from the people who make the trip.
More of Slaughters
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.