Arthur P. Stitzel House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainA job hub: Wildwood has 5.2 jobs per working resident, and 580 people come in to work
18% of workers have no commute at all, where Kentucky as a whole has 10%. Employers in Wildwood report 580 jobs for 111 working residents. Hardly any work in Wildwood itself; outside it, Louisville draws the most (21%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Wildwood, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 111 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 750 people are in Wildwood on a workday afternoon, 165% more 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 the people who work in Wildwood live
Where Wildwood clocks in
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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Wildwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wildwood, 2014 → 2024: 919 → 580. 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 Wildwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Wildwood, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wildwood workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 105 commuters (the 18% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wildwood
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.
Next door to Wildwood
The biggest share goes to Lyndon (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Wildwood’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Wildwood: questions
What is the median household income in Wildwood?
$107,083 (±$22,499) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wildwood?
3.2%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wildwood?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wildwood work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Louisville (21%, 6 mi), Watterson Park (7%, 7 mi), Jeffersontown (7%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Wildwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wildwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wildwood
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.