Cottage Grove has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 13% for Tennessee as a whole. Cottage Grove has 3 jobs for 22 working residents. Hardly any work in Cottage Grove itself; outside it, Paris draws the most (41%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Cottage Grove
On a workday 22 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 47 people are in Cottage Grove on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Where Cottage Grove goes to work
Where Cottage Grove clocks in
41% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Cottage Grove
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cottage Grove, 2014 → 2024: 2 → 3. 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 Cottage Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 33 minutes each way for Cottage Grove’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cottage Grove workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24 commuters (the 0% 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.
Cottage Grove’s commute, mile by mile
About 23% 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 Cottage Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Cottage Grove?
$36,250 (±$33,737) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cottage Grove?
14.0%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cottage Grove?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cottage Grove work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paris (41%, 11 mi), Murray (5%, 18 mi), Camden (5%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Cottage Grove without a car?
4% 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 Cottage Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cottage Grove
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.