Photo: W.marsh · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Warsaw are lower than in 73% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 24.6% of residents; Kentucky has 16.1%. For jobs and income Warsaw is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in ten work in Warsaw itself; outside it, Florence draws the most (5%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The four measures behind Warsaw’s grade
Job access by car holds Warsaw’s grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (6.8%) is left out: Warsaw’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, Warsaw could be anywhere from D to C.
In and out of Warsaw on a workday
On a workday 660 residents head out to work, 89 work right here, and 706 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Warsaw to work: where people go
Where Warsaw clocks in
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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
795 jobs are based in Warsaw.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warsaw, 2013 → 2023: 772 → 795. 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 Warsaw’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Kentucky
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warsaw workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 782 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 many miles Warsaw commutes
About 20% 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.
The commute in Warsaw is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 810 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). 11.0% of Warsaw households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warsaw’s commuters take a bus or train.
Warsaw next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 4,612th of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,610 | Coventry NY | 1,484 | $63K | 15.0% | 3.6% | 1% | C− |
| 4,611 | Iron River WI | 1,274 | $58K | 9.6% | 1.3% | 16% | C− |
| 4,612 | Warsaw KY | 1,757 | $61K | 24.6% | 6.8% | 12% | C− |
| 4,613 | West Carthage NY | 1,721 | $50K | 10.4% | 0.4% | 9% | C− |
| 4,614 | Kemp TX | 1,453 | $56K | 25.2% | 2.7% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Warsaw, 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 Warsaw: questions
What is the median household income in Warsaw?
$60,769 (±$8,432) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warsaw?
24.6%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warsaw?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warsaw work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (5%, 20 mi), Lexington (3%, 56 mi), Louisville (2%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warsaw walkable?
Warsaw is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warsaw without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warsaw, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warsaw
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.