Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWayland has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Kentucky 10%). There are 31 jobs in Wayland for 98 working residents. Only 2% work in Wayland; the top destination outside it is Prestonsburg (24%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wayland by day and by night
On a workday 96 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Wayland on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Wayland goes to work
Where Wayland clocks in
24% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Wayland
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wayland, 2014 → 2024: 8 → 31. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wayland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 38 minutes each way, longer than most of Kentucky
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wayland workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 99 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Wayland
About 31% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Wayland: questions
What is the median household income in Wayland?
$28,333 (±$20,937) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wayland?
48.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wayland?
38 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wayland work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Prestonsburg (24%, 16 mi), Hazard (7%, 26 mi), Lexington (7%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Wayland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wayland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wayland
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.