City · Nelson County, Kentucky

Bloomfield, Kentucky

Bloomfield is a city in Nelson County, Kentucky, part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area. It has 1,124 residents. Bloomfield, Kentucky has a quality-of-life score of 43 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,868 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kentucky it ranks #81 of 243 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), job growth (high) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on distance to an Amtrak station (high), comfortable days (low) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

43Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,868 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kentucky: #81 of 243 in KY
Population: 1,124 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 779.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 2107516

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety63#5,713/15,637
Economy44#8,765/15,631
Housing77#3,472/14,977
Health41#9,166/15,609
Healthcare39#9,535/15,650
Environment48#7,986/15,453
Education26#11,603/15,649
Infrastructure58#6,574/15,650
Community42#9,056/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,771/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bloomfield, Kentucky ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Nelson County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Violent crime rate · low46 /100k
98/100Kentucky 212 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationNelson County value
Job growth · high3.4%
95/100Kentucky -0.4%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataNelson County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Kentucky 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNelson County value
Mammography screening · high52.0%
81/100Kentucky 45.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNelson County value
Public transit commuters · high1.6%
80/100Kentucky 0.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Food environment index · high8.7
78/100Kentucky 6.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNelson County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an Amtrak station · high102 mi
9/100Kentucky 78 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauNelson County value
Comfortable days · low23.3%
10/100Kentucky 23.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationNelson County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low2.0 /10k
12/100Kentucky 4.4 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsNelson County value
Suicide rate · high21.0 /100k
18/100Kentucky 18.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataNelson County value
Public EV charging ports · low1.8 /10k
19/100Kentucky 2.6 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyNelson County value
Child poverty rate · high18.3%
20/100Kentucky 18.9%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
808 (2015-2019) → 1,124 (2020-2024)
+39%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
64.5% (2015-2019) → 91.1% (2020-2024)
+27 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
39.5% (2015-2019) → 55.0% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
10.3% (2015-2019) → 24.3% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
High school diploma or higherImproving
77.3% (2015-2019) → 91.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$33,854 (2015-2019) → $55,063 (2020-2024)
+63%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bloomfield, Kentucky improved on 3 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Broadband+27 points64.5% → 91.1%
Bachelor's++14 points10.3% → 24.3%
Poverty−11 points22.0% → 10.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Bloomfield, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.8 min2015-2019	24.7 min2020-2024	−2.1 min	Within the margin of error	72%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.3%2015-2019	24.3%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	96%
Broadband subscriptions	64.5%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	+27 points	Improved	96%
Effective property tax rate	1.11%2015-2019	0.86%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	66%
High school diploma or higher	77.3%2015-2019	91.0%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	69%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4922015-2019	0.4312020-2024	−0.062	Within the margin of error	88%
Median household income	$33,8542015-2019	$55,0632020-2024	+63%	Within the margin of error	92%
Poverty rate	22.0%2015-2019	10.9%2020-2024	−11 points	Improved	94%
Rent as share of income	27.8%2015-2019	30.9%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Rent-burdened households	39.5%2015-2019	55.0%2020-2024	+16 points	Within the margin of error	14%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bloomfield, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bloomfield, Kentucky in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Bloomfield, Kentucky itself moved +12.6 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,124 residents (±287)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

575 households (±142)

Bloomfield, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k23%†132
$25k–50k27%†155
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

575 households (±142)

Bloomfield, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own78%451
Rent22%†124

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

508 workers (±161)

Bloomfield, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone80%†407
Carpool6.1%†31
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Nelson County, the county holding most of Bloomfield's residents.

Nelson County has 1,023 employer establishments, 214 for every 10,000 residents (0.86× the US rate of 248; 1.03× Kentucky's), with 17,214 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,838. The Census Bureau also counts 3,484 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,023; 3,484 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 214; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 17,214
Average annual pay: $53,838; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Nelson County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	99	20.7	1.33×More than typical	1,288	$58,237	423
Ambulatory health care services	98	20.5	0.98×About typical	980	$49,702	131
Restaurants and other eating places	59	12.3	0.67×Fewer than typical	1,276	$20,424	13
Building equipment contractors	36	7.5	1.25×About typical	922	$60,227	76
Services to buildings and dwellings	35	7.3	1.08×About typical	101	$36,337	230
Truck transportation	35	7.3	1.44×More than typical	541	$59,497	84
Construction of buildings	34	7.1	0.94×About typical	392	$72,865	134
Religious organizations	34	7.1	1.28×More than typical	303	$30,835	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	31	6.5	1.47×More than typical	86	$41,116	60
Limited-service restaurants	31	6.5	0.81×About typical	593	$18,307	8
Gasoline stations	30	6.3	1.93×More than typical	274	$25,712	—
Offices of physicians	30	6.3	0.97×About typical	488	$51,654	13

Rank places for an industry Open Nelson County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 47,909 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bloomfield, Kentucky: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

21.8FY2018

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bloomfield, Kentucky, so they do not add up across cities.

Bloomfield, Kentucky's figures are part of those of Nelson County, KY ($12.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bloomfield is mostly in Nelson County.

See federal money in Nelson County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bloomfield, Kentucky is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Nelson County60100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN53

Other cities and towns in Nelson County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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