Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Wheatcroft has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
0% of workers work from home (Kentucky 10%). There are 12 jobs in Wheatcroft for 37 working residents. Only 3% work in Wheatcroft itself; outside it, Henderson draws the most (14%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Wheatcroft: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 36 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 75 people are in Wheatcroft on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Wheatcroft goes to work
Where Wheatcroft clocks in
14% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
100% of the jobs in Wheatcroft pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wheatcroft, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 12. 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 Wheatcroft’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Wheatcroft: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wheatcroft workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 30 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.
How many miles Wheatcroft commutes
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.
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 Wheatcroft: questions
What is the median household income in Wheatcroft?
$41,250 (±$28,663) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wheatcroft?
13.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wheatcroft?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wheatcroft work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Henderson (14%, 29 mi), Dixon (11%, 10 mi), Clay (8%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wheatcroft without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wheatcroft, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wheatcroft
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.