Photo: rossograph · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Cottontown commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Cottontown itself; outside it, Nashville draws the most (27%, 24 miles). Cottontown has 19 jobs; 173 of its residents have a job. 24% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Tennessee as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Cottontown for work, and who comes in
On a workday 172 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Cottontown on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Cottontown’s working residents head each day
Where Cottontown clocks in
20% of workers
6% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Cottontown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cottontown, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 19. 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 Cottontown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way for Cottontown’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cottontown workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 106 commuters (the 24% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cottontown
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.
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 Cottontown: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cottontown?
3.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cottontown?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cottontown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (27%, 24 mi), Gallatin (20%, 6 mi), Hendersonville (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cottontown 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 Cottontown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cottontown
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.