Photo: DwayneP. The original uploader was DwayneP at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Bulls Gap draws 503 commuters a day, with 2.1 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% work in Bulls Gap; the top destination outside it is Morristown (20%, 13 miles). Employers in Bulls Gap report 509 jobs; 243 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, against 13% across Tennessee.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Bulls Gap apart
Bulls Gap makes and builds things
80% of the jobs based in Bulls Gap are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bulls Gap residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Bulls Gap is where the jobs are
Bulls Gap has 509 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Bulls Gap and Morristown trade workers both ways
Morristown is the top workplace for Bulls Gap residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Bulls Gap come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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; with 243 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Making and building: 80% of jobs based in Bulls Gap
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bulls Gap, 2014 → 2024: 407 → 509. 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 Bulls Gap’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Bulls Gap
On a workday 237 residents head out to work and 6 work right here.
About 1,000 people are in Bulls Gap on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where Bulls Gap’s workers come from
Where Bulls Gap clocks in
20% of workers
12% of workers
9% 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.
Time on the road from Bulls Gap: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bulls Gap workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 251 commuters (the 6% 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.
Miles to work from Bulls Gap
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.
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 Bulls Gap: questions
What is the median household income in Bulls Gap?
$52,857 (±$21,411) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bulls Gap?
21.3%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bulls Gap?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bulls Gap work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morristown (20%, 13 mi), Rogersville (12%, 11 mi), Greeneville (9%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Bulls Gap without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bulls Gap, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bulls Gap
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.