Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0Jobs and earnings in Bell Buckle, and the trip to work
Home is the office for 19% of workers; Tennessee has 13%. Hardly any work in Bell Buckle; the top destination outside it is Shelbyville (19%, 8 miles). Working residents average 24 minutes each way (Tennessee 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Bell Buckle for work, and who comes in
On a workday 181 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 186 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.03 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Bell Buckle to work: where people go
Where Bell Buckle clocks in
19% of workers
14% 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.
In Bell Buckle, services account for most jobs
187 jobs are based in Bell Buckle.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bell Buckle, 2013 → 2023: 122 → 187. 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 Bell Buckle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Bell Buckle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bell Buckle workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 254 commuters (the 19% 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.
How far Bell Buckle’s workers travel
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.
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 Bell Buckle: questions
What is the median household income in Bell Buckle?
$86,250 (±$25,727) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bell Buckle?
11.8%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bell Buckle?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bell Buckle work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shelbyville (19%, 8 mi), Nashville (19%, 47 mi), Murfreesboro (14%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bell Buckle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bell Buckle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bell Buckle
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.