Red Clay Council Ground · Photo: Brian Stansberry (photographer) · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Apison are higher than in 91% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 12.4% of residents, against 13.8% across Tennessee. Jobs and income earn Apison A−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 6% stay in Apison for work; outside it, Chattanooga is the main destination (51%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Apison
Apison makes and builds things
95% of the jobs based in Apison are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Apison residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
More than half of Apison works in Chattanooga
784 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Chattanooga, 14 miles away. That’s 9 times as many as work in Apison itself. The commute map ↓
Apison is where the jobs are
Apison has 2,919 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Apison pay better than its residents’ jobs
77% of the jobs based in Apison pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 60% of the jobs Apison residents hold. 97% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Apison. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Apison gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Apison is better than 82% of U.S. towns, #28 of 177 in Tennessee. Unemployment holds Apison’s grade up (1.0%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Apison could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Goods jobs make up 95% of work in Apison
2,919 jobs are based in Apison.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Apison, 2013 → 2023: 2,658 → 2,919. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Apison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Apison live
Where Apison clocks in
51% of workers
5% 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.
Apison by day and by night
On a workday 1,450 residents head out to work, 88 work right here, and 2,831 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,700 people are in Apison on a workday afternoon, 32% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 26 minutes to work from Apison
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Apison workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,802 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Tennessee: 87% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Apison
About 20% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Apison start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Apison is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns, #175 of 177 in Tennessee. Both inputs place Apison near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,132 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.5% of Apison households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Apison’s commuters take a bus or train.
Apison next to U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800: 731st of 4,039 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 417 | Coopertown TN | 4,843 | $118K | 9.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 729 | Baxter Village SC | 4,542 | $152K | 9.2% | 4.1% | 3% | A− |
| 730 | Newport SC | 4,121 | $110K | 14.1% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 731 | Apison TN | 4,271 | $129K | 12.4% | 1.0% | 6% | A− |
| 732 | Adairsville GA | 5,101 | $103K | 6.1% | 2.0% | 7% | A− |
| 733 | Fredon Township NJ | 3,332 | $143K | 6.5% | 3.2% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Apison, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
The towns around Apison
The biggest share goes to Collegedale (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Apison workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apison | – | A− | D− | 26 min | $129,307 |
| Collegedale | 4% | A− | B+ | 22 min | $70,246 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Apison’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 2023, 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 Apison: questions
What is the median household income in Apison?
$129,307 (±$51,325) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Apison?
12.4%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Apison?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Apison work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chattanooga (51%, 14 mi), Cleveland (5%, 14 mi), Collegedale (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Apison walkable?
Apison is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Apison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Apison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Apison
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.