Sorgho has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Sorgho report 313 jobs; 838 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Sorgho is better than 83% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (D−). Household incomes here are higher than in 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Sorgho at work: what stands out
Stores, warehouses and trucking
82% of the jobs in Sorgho are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Sorgho and Owensboro trade workers both ways
Owensboro is the top workplace for Sorgho residents (44%) and also where the most people who work in Sorgho come from (34% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Sorgho residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 838 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Sorgho’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income is its strongest input ($121,579, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (8.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sorgho could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
85% of the jobs in Sorgho pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sorgho, 2013 → 2023: 31 → 313. 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 Sorgho’s own residents hold wherever they work.
44% of working residents work in Owensboro
Where Sorgho clocks in
44% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sorgho
About 16% 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.
Who leaves Sorgho for work, and who comes in
On a workday 826 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 301 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Sorgho on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
From Sorgho, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sorgho workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,242 commuters (the 6% 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 commute in Sorgho is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,319 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). 0.0% of Sorgho households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sorgho’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Sorgho is 636th among 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Lakeside Park KY | 2,847 | $129K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Indian Hills KY | 2,939 | $192K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 109 | Windy Hills KY | 2,476 | $131K | 5.1% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 634 | Sherman CT | 3,618 | $116K | 2.2% | 3.9% | 12% | A− |
| 635 | Sandstone Township MI | 3,873 | $98K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A− |
| 636 | Sorgho KY | 2,960 | $122K | 8.4% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 637 | Keowee Key SC | 3,351 | $125K | 2.1% | 2.6% | 7% | A− |
| 638 | Dodge Center MN | 2,951 | $94K | 3.7% | 2.3% | 18% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Sorgho, 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 Sorgho: questions
What is the median household income in Sorgho?
$121,579 (±$41,370) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sorgho?
8.4%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sorgho?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sorgho work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owensboro (44%, 5 mi), Evansville (3%, 24 mi), Bowling Green (2%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sorgho walkable?
Sorgho is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sorgho 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 Sorgho, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sorgho
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.