Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0A job hub: Blountville has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 2,798 people come in to work
2,866 jobs are based in Blountville for 1,161 working residents. Blountville grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, Blountville is behind 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Blountville
Blountville is where the jobs are
Blountville has 2,866 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,000 people are in town, 52% more than the 3,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Blountville are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 26 across Tennessee. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Tennessee worker. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Blountville is services
88% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 6% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
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.
Why Blountville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Blountville is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #66 of 177 in Tennessee. Unemployment holds Blountville’s grade up (3.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($54,754, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Blountville could be anywhere from C− to A.
The daily flow of workers through Blountville
On a workday 1,093 residents head out to work and 68 work right here.
About 5,000 people are in Blountville on a workday afternoon, 52% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
How long Blountville spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blountville workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 901 commuters (the 8% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blountville, 2014 → 2024: 3,197 → 2,866. 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 Blountville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Blountville: where workers come from
Where Blountville clocks in
18% of workers
15% 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.
How many miles Blountville commutes
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Blountville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blountville is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #122 of 177 in Tennessee. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 977 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). 1.2% of Blountville households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Blountville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,593 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500, Blountville comes 2,153rd 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 417 | Piperton TN | 2,889 | $130K | 4.6% | 3.5% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,151 | Buchanan Township MI | 3,475 | $67K | 5.1% | 5.5% | 4% | B− |
| 2,152 | Palmyra Township PA | 3,391 | $66K | 6.1% | 2.7% | 12% | B− |
| 2,153 | Blountville TN | 3,309 | $55K | 8.3% | 3.2% | 6% | B− |
| 2,154 | Clay Township IN | 2,679 | $86K | 5.4% | 5.4% | 2% | B− |
| 2,155 | Sunderland MA | 3,607 | $68K | 14.3% | 6.5% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Blountville, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Work next door: 18% of Blountville’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Blountville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blountville | – | B− | C− | 19 min | $54,754 |
| Bristol | 18% | C | B− | 21 min | $58,162 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bristol. Darker towns draw more of Blountville’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 2024, 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 Blountville: questions
What is the median household income in Blountville?
$54,754 (±$15,121) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blountville?
8.3%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blountville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blountville work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bristol (18%, 6 mi), Kingsport (15%, 12 mi), Johnson City (14%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Blountville walkable?
Blountville is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blountville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blountville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blountville
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.