Photo: EVula · CC BY 3.0Nashville draws about two in three of Berry Hill’s working residents
Berry Hill grades A− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 8.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 0.3 in Murfreesboro. 24% of workers have no commute at all; Tennessee has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Berry Hill
Berry Hill fills up on a workday
Berry Hill has 30,835 jobs, 23.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 31,000 people are in town, 17 times the 1,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
More than half of Berry Hill works in Nashville
830 working residents, 64%, have their main job in Nashville, 3.6 miles away. That’s 13 times as many as work in Berry Hill itself. The commute map ↓
A young workforce
39% of Berry Hill’s working residents are 29 or younger, about one in three. The jobs ↓
Most Berry Hill residents work close to home
72% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 8% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Commutes from Berry Hill are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 26 across Tennessee. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Tennessee worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Berry Hill earns its Jobs & income grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Berry Hill is better than 84% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); family income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($94,375, U.S. $99,999). It also does well on family income and the poverty rate.
18% of Berry Hill’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (18% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 6.6%, against 11.2% for all residents. Unemployment (3.1%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($94,375), since student households pull the household median down ($79,591).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Berry Hill could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Berry Hill
On a workday 1,229 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 30,772 people come in from elsewhere.
About 31,000 people are in Berry Hill on a workday afternoon, 1585% more than live here.
23.9 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Berry Hill live
Where Berry Hill clocks in
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Berry Hill
30,835 jobs are based in Berry Hill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Berry Hill, 2014 → 2024: 28,584 → 30,835. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Berry Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Berry Hill works
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 17 minutes each way, quicker than most of Tennessee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Berry Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,262 commuters (the 24% 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.
Berry Hill is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Berry Hill is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Tennessee.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,664 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 23% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 8.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 92% 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). 4.5% of Berry Hill households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Berry Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Berry Hill next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500: 564th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 195 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 230 | Fairmount TN | 2,110 | $137K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 562 | Langhorne PA | 1,620 | $101K | 10.8% | 6.5% | 2% | A− |
| 563 | Oakdale PA | 1,413 | $93K | 8.0% | 3.0% | 3% | A− |
| 564 | Berry Hill TN | 1,864 | $80K | 11.2% | 3.1% | 5% | A− |
| 565 | Bogus Brook Township MN | 1,535 | $124K | 2.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A− |
| 566 | Lafayette Township NJ | 2,417 | $129K | 5.4% | 3.2% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Berry Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 18% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Berry Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Berry Hill?
$79,591 (±$15,394) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Berry Hill?
11.2% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 6.6%. Tennessee: 13.8%.
How long is the commute from Berry Hill?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Berry Hill work?
5% work in town.
Is Berry Hill walkable?
Berry Hill is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 16.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Berry Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 23% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Berry Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Berry Hill
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.