Work and Jobs in Fayette, Kentucky (KY) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
The most common industries in Fayette are: Educational services (12.5% of civilian employees), Health care (12.1% of civilian employees), Accommodation & food services (8.3% of civilian employees). 66.1% of workers are employees of private companies, which is 4.0% less than the rate of 68.7% across the entire state of Kentucky.
Most common industries
Most common industries | |||
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Industry | All | Males | Females |
Educational services | 12.5% (17,406) | 9.1% (6,611) | 16.3% (10,795) |
Health care | 12.1% (16,863) | 6.0% (4,369) | 18.8% (12,494) |
Accommodation and food services | 8.3% (11,560) | 8.2% (5,942) | 8.5% (5,618) |
Professional, scientific, and technical services | 6.3% (8,789) | 7.0% (5,082) | 5.6% (3,707) |
Construction | 5.4% (7,537) | 9.3% (6,743) | 1.2% (794) |
Finance and insurance | 3.8% (5,352) | 3.0% (2,193) | 4.8% (3,159) |
Public administration | 3.6% (5,014) | 3.6% (2,651) | 3.6% (2,363) |
Transportation equipment | 2.7% (3,745) | 3.7% (2,706) | 1.6% (1,039) |
Administrative and support and waste management services | 2.7% (3,710) | 2.9% (2,092) | 2.4% (1,618) |
Food and beverage stores | 2.2% (3,054) | 2.2% (1,632) | 2.1% (1,422) |
Computer and electronic products | 2.1% (2,927) | 2.7% (1,963) | 1.5% (964) |
Department and other general merchandise stores | 2.1% (2,917) | 1.2% (878) | 3.1% (2,039) |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 2.0% (2,793) | 2.9% (2,100) | 1.0% (693) |
Social assistance | 2.0% (2,721) | 0.5% (370) | 3.5% (2,351) |
Real estate and rental and leasing | 1.9% (2,575) | 1.8% (1,346) | 1.9% (1,229) |
Broadcasting and telecommunications | 1.5% (2,109) | 1.6% (1,143) | 1.5% (966) |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 1.5% (2,083) | 1.6% (1,169) | 1.4% (914) |
Machinery | 1.5% (2,042) | 2.1% (1,519) | 0.8% (523) |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 1.5% (2,041) | 1.3% (957) | 1.6% (1,084) |
Personal and laundry services | 1.2% (1,671) | 0.8% (553) | 1.7% (1,118) |
Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 1.2% (1,665) | 1.8% (1,332) | 0.5% (333) |
Repair and maintenance | 1.2% (1,647) | 1.8% (1,280) | 0.6% (367) |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 1.2% (1,637) | 1.8% (1,287) | 0.5% (350) |
Printing and related support activities | 1.1% (1,595) | 1.4% (1,017) | 0.9% (578) |
Truck transportation | 0.9% (1,285) | 1.5% (1,090) | 0.3% (195) |
Metal and metal products | 0.8% (1,136) | 1.2% (873) | 0.4% (263) |
Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 0.8% (1,124) | 0.9% (658) | 0.7% (466) |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 0.7% (1,014) | 1.1% (786) | 0.3% (228) |
Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.7% (992) | 0.5% (363) | 0.9% (629) |
Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 0.7% (991) | 0.4% (326) | 1.0% (665) |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 0.7% (967) | 0.8% (604) | 0.5% (363) |
Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.6% (894) | 0.4% (306) | 0.9% (588) |
Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.6% (856) | 0.6% (403) | 0.7% (453) |
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.6% (820) | 0.7% (509) | 0.5% (311) |
Radio, TV, and computer stores | 0.6% (793) | 0.9% (634) | 0.2% (159) |
Utilities | 0.6% (774) | 0.8% (559) | 0.3% (215) |
U. S. Postal service | 0.5% (694) | 0.7% (474) | 0.3% (220) |
Data processing, libraries, and other information services | 0.5% (674) | 0.4% (287) | 0.6% (387) |
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (606) | 0.7% (493) | 0.2% (113) |
Other direct selling establishments | 0.4% (594) | 0.4% (263) | 0.5% (331) |
Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (590) | 0.6% (436) | 0.2% (154) |
Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (581) | 0.6% (432) | 0.2% (149) |
Food | 0.4% (569) | 0.5% (378) | 0.3% (191) |
Plastics and rubber products | 0.4% (510) | 0.5% (348) | 0.2% (162) |
Chemicals | 0.4% (489) | 0.5% (360) | 0.2% (129) |
Private households | 0.3% (479) | 0.1% (71) | 0.6% (408) |
Book stores and news dealers | 0.3% (471) | 0.2% (152) | 0.5% (319) |
Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (462) | 0.4% (317) | 0.2% (145) |
Gasoline stations | 0.3% (405) | 0.3% (220) | 0.3% (185) |
Paper | 0.3% (356) | 0.3% (244) | 0.2% (112) |
Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.3% (355) | 0.4% (255) | 0.2% (100) |
Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (352) | 0.4% (263) | 0.1% (89) |
Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (343) | 0.3% (188) | 0.2% (155) |
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses | 0.2% (314) | 0.2% (140) | 0.3% (174) |
Furniture and related product manufacturing | 0.2% (305) | 0.4% (268) | 0.1% (37) |
Beverage and tobacco products | 0.2% (296) | 0.4% (278) | 0.0% (18) |
Nonmetallic mineral products | 0.2% (293) | 0.3% (240) | 0.1% (53) |
Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.2% (290) | 0.1% (78) | 0.3% (212) |
Air transportation | 0.2% (244) | 0.2% (165) | 0.1% (79) |
Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (243) | 0.3% (186) | 0.1% (57) |
Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (236) | 0.2% (173) | 0.1% (63) |
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores | 0.2% (234) | 0.1% (69) | 0.2% (165) |
Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (227) | 0.1% (91) | 0.2% (136) |
Alcoholic beverages merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (218) | 0.3% (182) | 0.1% (36) |
Office supplies and stationery stores | 0.2% (217) | 0.2% (135) | 0.1% (82) |
Textile mills and textile products | 0.1% (186) | 0.1% (76) | 0.2% (110) |
Wood products | 0.1% (181) | 0.2% (152) | 0.0% (29) |
Music stores | 0.1% (170) | 0.2% (130) | 0.1% (40) |
Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (150) | 0.1% (85) | 0.1% (65) |
Lumber and other construction materials merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (146) | 0.2% (130) | 0.0% (16) |
Paper and paper products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (130) | 0.1% (92) | 0.1% (38) |
Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (121) | 0.1% (98) | 0.0% (23) |
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction | 0.1% (120) | 0.1% (107) | 0.0% (13) |
Recyclable material merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (116) | 0.1% (109) | 0.0% (7) |
Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (114) | 0.1% (88) | 0.0% (26) |
Warehousing and storage | 0.1% (109) | 0.1% (78) | 0.0% (31) |
Petroleum and coal products | 0.1% (106) | 0.1% (82) | 0.0% (24) |
Unemployment in Fayette
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 4.6%Males
- 4.5%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 9.6%Males
- 7.6%Females
- Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native residents
- 5.7%Males
- 16.9%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 5.7%Males
- 5.1%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 9.6%Males
- 18.9%Females
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 10.6%Males
- 4.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 13.9%Males
- 14.9%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
<5am:
Fayette: | 1.6% (2,241) |
Kentucky: | 3.7% (65,918) |
5:30am:
Fayette: | 1.6% (2,139) |
Kentucky: | 3.1% (55,792) |
6am:
Fayette: | 2.6% (3,588) |
Kentucky: | 4.7% (84,161) |
6:30am:
Fayette: | 5.2% (7,089) |
Kentucky: | 8.8% (156,072) |
7am:
Fayette: | 9.4% (12,911) |
Kentucky: | 10.8% (191,924) |
7:30am:
Fayette: | 15.1% (20,592) |
Kentucky: | 14.4% (256,256) |
8am:
Fayette: | 18.2% (24,959) |
Kentucky: | 15.6% (277,275) |
8:30am:
Fayette: | 11.4% (15,659) |
Kentucky: | 8.8% (156,855) |
9am:
Fayette: | 6.6% (9,044) |
Kentucky: | 4.2% (75,532) |
10am:
Fayette: | 6.2% (8,500) |
Kentucky: | 4.4% (77,954) |
11am:
Fayette: | 2.5% (3,480) |
Kentucky: | 1.9% (33,406) |
12pm:
Fayette: | 1.4% (1,941) |
Kentucky: | 1.0% (17,303) |
4pm:
Fayette: | 6.9% (9,380) |
Kentucky: | 7.6% (135,045) |
>4pm:
Fayette: | 8.6% (11,832) |
Kentucky: | 8.4% (150,096) |
Travel time to work
Less than 5 minutes:
Fayette: | 2.9% (3,921) |
Kentucky: | 3.8% (67,210) |
5 to 9 minutes:
Fayette: | 11.1% (15,186) |
Kentucky: | 11.8% (210,440) |
10 to 14 minutes:
Fayette: | 19.4% (26,507) |
Kentucky: | 16.3% (290,128) |
15 to 19 minutes:
Fayette: | 23.3% (31,837) |
Kentucky: | 16.9% (301,009) |
20 to 24 minutes:
Fayette: | 18.3% (25,087) |
Kentucky: | 14.7% (262,418) |
25 to 29 minutes:
Fayette: | 5.2% (7,103) |
Kentucky: | 5.7% (101,130) |
30 to 34 minutes:
Fayette: | 9.1% (12,390) |
Kentucky: | 11.7% (208,362) |
35 to 39 minutes:
Fayette: | 1.3% (1,809) |
Kentucky: | 2.3% (40,576) |
40 to 44 minutes:
Fayette: | 1.5% (2,015) |
Kentucky: | 2.5% (44,172) |
45 to 59 minutes:
Fayette: | 2.8% (3,798) |
Kentucky: | 5.8% (102,842) |
60 to 89 minutes:
Fayette: | 1.5% (2,009) |
Kentucky: | 3.5% (61,841) |
90 or more minutes:
Fayette: | 1.2% (1,693) |
Kentucky: | 2.4% (43,461) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
Fayette: | 79.9% (109,277) |
Kentucky: | 80.2% (1,429,053) |
Carpooled:
Fayette: | 11.2% (15,324) |
Kentucky: | 12.6% (224,643) |
Bus or trolley bus:
Fayette: | 1.2% (1,590) |
Kentucky: | 1.1% (19,522) |
Streetcar or trolley car:
Fayette: | 0.0% (8) |
Kentucky: | 0.0% (203) |
Subway or elevated:
Fayette: | 0.0% (17) |
Kentucky: | 0.0% (154) |
Taxicab:
Fayette: | 0.1% (149) |
Kentucky: | 0.1% (1,333) |
Motorcycle:
Fayette: | 0.1% (97) |
Kentucky: | 0.1% (894) |
Bicycle:
Fayette: | 0.6% (778) |
Kentucky: | 0.1% (2,609) |
Walked:
Fayette: | 4.0% (5,513) |
Kentucky: | 2.4% (42,494) |
Other means:
Fayette: | 0.4% (602) |
Kentucky: | 0.7% (12,374) |
Private vehicle occupancy
Drove alone:
Fayette: | 87.7% (109,277) |
Kentucky: | 86.4% (1,429,053) |
In 2 person carpool:
Fayette: | 9.6% (11,989) |
Kentucky: | 10.8% (178,387) |
In 3 person carpool:
Fayette: | 1.6% (1,998) |
Kentucky: | 1.8% (30,156) |
In 4 person carpool:
Fayette: | 0.7% (908) |
Kentucky: | 0.6% (10,003) |
In 5-6 person carpool:
Fayette: | 0.2% (274) |
Kentucky: | 0.2% (3,981) |
In 7+ person carpool:
Fayette: | 0.1% (155) |
Kentucky: | 0.1% (2,116) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
Fayette: | 66.1% (91,971) |
Kentucky: | 68.7% (1,235,989) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
Fayette: | 3.1% (4,344) |
Kentucky: | 3.0% (53,084) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
Fayette: | 8.3% (11,580) |
Kentucky: | 6.8% (121,764) |
Local government workers:
Fayette: | 5.2% (7,251) |
Kentucky: | 5.6% (100,920) |
State government workers:
Fayette: | 9.9% (13,814) |
Kentucky: | 6.4% (114,791) |
Federal government workers:
Fayette: | 2.2% (3,036) |
Kentucky: | 2.5% (44,072) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
Fayette: | 4.9% (6,793) |
Kentucky: | 6.7% (120,288) |
Unpaid family workers:
Fayette: | 0.3% (385) |
Kentucky: | 0.4% (7,356) |
Employee of private company - Males:
Fayette: | 69.7% (50,748) |
Kentucky: | 72.0% (690,861) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Males:
Fayette: | 4.4% (3,229) |
Kentucky: | 4.1% (39,506) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
Fayette: | 5.2% (3,759) |
Kentucky: | 4.0% (37,911) |
Local government workers - Males:
Fayette: | 3.7% (2,721) |
Kentucky: | 4.2% (39,968) |
State government workers - Males:
Fayette: | 8.8% (6,374) |
Kentucky: | 4.5% (43,483) |
Federal government workers - Males:
Fayette: | 2.2% (1,603) |
Kentucky: | 2.2% (21,587) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
Fayette: | 5.7% (4,158) |
Kentucky: | 8.6% (82,249) |
Unpaid family workers - Males:
Fayette: | 0.3% (206) |
Kentucky: | 0.4% (4,031) |
Employee of private company - Females:
Fayette: | 62.1% (41,223) |
Kentucky: | 65.0% (545,128) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
Fayette: | 1.7% (1,115) |
Kentucky: | 1.6% (13,578) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
Fayette: | 11.8% (7,821) |
Kentucky: | 10.0% (83,853) |
Local government workers - Females:
Fayette: | 6.8% (4,530) |
Kentucky: | 7.3% (60,952) |
State government workers - Females:
Fayette: | 11.2% (7,440) |
Kentucky: | 8.5% (71,308) |
Federal government workers - Females:
Fayette: | 2.2% (1,433) |
Kentucky: | 2.7% (22,485) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
Fayette: | 4.0% (2,635) |
Kentucky: | 4.5% (38,039) |
Unpaid family workers - Females:
Fayette: | 0.3% (179) |
Kentucky: | 0.4% (3,325) |