Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Cornersville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 4% work in Cornersville itself; outside it, Lewisburg draws the most (23%, 7 miles). 256 jobs are based in Cornersville for 600 working residents. Cornersville grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cornersville and work: the main findings
Cornersville and Lewisburg trade workers both ways
Lewisburg is the top workplace for Cornersville residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Cornersville come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Cornersville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 26 across Tennessee. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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; with 600 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Cornersville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Cornersville is better than 17% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Cornersville’s grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (27.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (11.0%) is left out: Cornersville’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, Cornersville could be anywhere from D to B.
Where people from Cornersville work
Where Cornersville clocks in
23% of workers
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.
The trip to work from Cornersville: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cornersville workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 659 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.
Cornersville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 578 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 234 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Cornersville on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer 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.
Jobs in Cornersville: what the 256 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cornersville, 2014 → 2024: 197 → 256. 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 Cornersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Cornersville
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Cornersville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cornersville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Tennessee, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 699 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). 1.0% of Cornersville households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cornersville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Cornersville ranks 4,263rd of 5,877 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 422 | Rossville TN | 1,215 | $120K | 7.3% | 6.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 472 | Berry Hill TN | 1,864 | $80K | 11.2% | 3.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 910 | Orlinda TN | 1,028 | $84K | 6.4% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,261 | Burlington NY | 1,037 | $66K | 13.0% | 7.6% | 1% | C− |
| 4,262 | Marion Township OH | 1,288 | $63K | 17.2% | 3.0% | 4% | C− |
| 4,263 | Cornersville TN | 1,385 | $64K | 27.7% | 11.0% | 4% | C− |
| 4,264 | Adams Township IL | 1,591 | $67K | 26.7% | 6.3% | 3% | C− |
| 4,265 | Woodhull NY | 1,635 | $60K | 10.2% | 8.1% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Cornersville, 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Cornersville: questions
What is the median household income in Cornersville?
$64,375 (±$18,389) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cornersville?
27.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cornersville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cornersville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lewisburg (23%, 7 mi), Nashville (13%, 56 mi), Franklin (8%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Cornersville walkable?
Cornersville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cornersville 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 Cornersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cornersville
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.