Richmond is home to two golf courses: Madison Country Club and Gibson Bay Golf Course. Adjacent to Lake Reba, Lake Reba Park offers 600 acres of land that include baseball, softball, and soccer fields, horseshoe pits, a 1.2-mile walking/jogging trail, a batting cage, and a large playground. Daniel Boone National Forest lies to the south, with many opportunities for hiking, camping, and mountain biking. Cave Run Lake and Laurel River Lake are popular attractions in the forest, which encompasses over 707,000 acres of mostly rugged terrain.

Primarily a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals, most Richmond workers are employed by a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Office and administrative support (17 percent), sales jobs (13 percent) and food service (9 percent)are all especially popular in Richmond. The top ten industries in which Richmond's employed residents work are retail (16 percent), manufacturing (14 percent), accommodation (12 percent), healthcare (9 percent), construction (6 percent), public service (4 percent), transportation (3 percent), information technology (3 percent), finance (3 percent), administration (2 percent). After that comes professional, scientific, and technical services (2 percent).