Louisville

City Commute Profile

Louisville, KY

Where Louisville’s 111,135 resident workers go each day — 40.9% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance).

KentuckyLODES 2023 data
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Louisville at a glance
Employed Residents
111,135
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
5.4mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
40.9%
Share working within the area
Work from home
0.0%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance)
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Louisville proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Louisville commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Louisville

111,135 commutes, one dot at a time

Louisville

Where 111,135 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Louisville, by worker count.

1Louisville0.0 mi45,501
2Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance)5.4 mi22,646
3Jeffersontown9.7 mi4,649
4Watterson Park4.0 mi4,328
5St. Matthews6.0 mi4,036
6Lexington-Fayette urban county69.9 mi2,821
7Lyndon9.2 mi1,884
8Jeffersonville6.1 mi1,545

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Louisville.

1Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance)5.4 mi52,577
2Louisville0.0 mi45,501
3Jeffersonville6.1 mi3,971
4Jeffersontown9.7 mi3,821
5Lexington-Fayette urban county69.9 mi3,547
6St. Matthews6.0 mi3,075
7Shively4.3 mi2,617
8New Albany6.6 mi2,568

Top industries

The sectors that employ Louisville’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance20.3%
TRTransportation and Warehousing13.0%
FIFinance and Insurance8.3%
AFAccommodation and Food Services8.3%
EDEducational Services6.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.3%
MFManufacturing6.2%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services5.9%
RTRetail Trade4.8%
Connectivity

Internet options for Louisville

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

8 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps93%
5 Gbps93%
8 Gbps
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FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).