Household incomes in Bon Aqua Junction are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
Only 2% work in Bon Aqua Junction; the top destination outside it is Dickson (15%, 10 miles). Below the poverty line: 12.7% of residents; Tennessee has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Bon Aqua Junction C; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Bon Aqua Junction in brief
What’s behind Bon Aqua Junction’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bon Aqua Junction is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Bon Aqua Junction’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($43,586, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Bon Aqua Junction’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bon Aqua Junction could be anywhere from D to B+.
About 34 minutes each way for Bon Aqua Junction’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bon Aqua Junction workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 562 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bon Aqua Junction
On a workday 460 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 233 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Bon Aqua Junction on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.52 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where the trip to work from Bon Aqua Junction ends
Where Bon Aqua Junction clocks in
15% of workers
11% 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 Bon Aqua Junction, 55% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
244 jobs are based in Bon Aqua Junction.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bon Aqua Junction, 2013 → 2023: 203 → 244. 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 Bon Aqua Junction’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Bon Aqua Junction works
About 22% 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.
Getting around Bon Aqua Junction: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bon Aqua Junction is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Tennessee, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 611 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Bon Aqua Junction households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bon Aqua Junction’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bon Aqua Junction is 3,624th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 192 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 253 | Pegram TN | 2,036 | $111K | 0.3% | 3.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,622 | Tuolumne City CA | 1,148 | $57K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 8% | C |
| 3,623 | Bolindale OH | 1,637 | $46K | 18.4% | 0.5% | <1% | C |
| 3,624 | Bon Aqua Junction TN | 1,586 | $44K | 12.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,625 | De Soto IL | 1,388 | $63K | 16.3% | 8.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,626 | Versailles PA | 1,406 | $43K | 20.1% | 8.3% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Bon Aqua Junction, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
The towns around Bon Aqua Junction
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bon Aqua Junction workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bon Aqua Junction | – | C | B | 34 min | $43,586 |
| Lyles | under 2% | B− | D | 39 min | $68,036 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bon Aqua Junction’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 Bon Aqua Junction: questions
What is the median household income in Bon Aqua Junction?
$43,586 (±$17,583) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bon Aqua Junction?
12.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bon Aqua Junction?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bon Aqua Junction work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dickson (15%, 10 mi), Nashville (13%, 34 mi), Franklin (11%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bon Aqua Junction walkable?
Bon Aqua Junction is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bon Aqua Junction without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bon Aqua Junction, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bon Aqua Junction
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.