Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of White Plains works elsewhere
Commuters spend 30 minutes getting to work on average, where Kentucky has 24 and the U.S. 26. White Plains has 31 jobs; 287 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in White Plains itself; outside it, Madisonville draws the most (29%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
White Plains at work: what stands out
White Plains is a place people come home to
There are 31 jobs based in White Plains, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday White Plains has about 620 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
White Plains and Madisonville trade workers both ways
Madisonville is the top workplace for White Plains residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in White Plains come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
White Plains workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 24 across Kentucky. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 287 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
White Plains by day and by night
On a workday 286 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 620 people are in White Plains on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting out of White Plains: the destinations
Where White Plains clocks in
9% of workers
3% 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.
About 30 minutes each way for White Plains’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of White Plains workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 353 commuters (the 5% 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.
What White Plains’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Plains, 2013 → 2023: 55 → 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs White Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from White Plains
About 26% 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 White Plains: questions
What is the median household income in White Plains?
$35,625 (±$19,093) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in White Plains?
26.4%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from White Plains?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in White Plains work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madisonville (29%, 14 mi), Hopkinsville (9%, 23 mi), Hanson (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around White Plains 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 White Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of White Plains
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.