Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Most of Stamping Ground commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 3% of workers, against 10% across Kentucky. There are 89 jobs in Stamping Ground, against 368 working residents. Only 1% stay in Stamping Ground for work; outside it, Georgetown is the main destination (27%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Stamping Ground: the figures worth knowing
Stamping Ground and Georgetown trade workers both ways
Georgetown is the top workplace for Stamping Ground residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Stamping Ground come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stamping Ground is a place people come home to
There are 89 jobs based in Stamping Ground, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Stamping Ground has about 560 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 368 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that employ Stamping Ground’s residents
Where Stamping Ground clocks in
27% 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.
How many people are in Stamping Ground by day
On a workday 363 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 84 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Stamping Ground on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 66% of the jobs in Stamping Ground
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stamping Ground, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 89. 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 Stamping Ground’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the KY average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stamping Ground workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 473 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 Stamping Ground goes to work
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 Stamping Ground: questions
What is the median household income in Stamping Ground?
$62,500 (±$7,923) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stamping Ground?
11.2%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stamping Ground?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stamping Ground work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Georgetown (27%, 8 mi), Lexington (25%, 20 mi), Frankfort (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Stamping Ground without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stamping Ground, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stamping Ground
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.