Photo: Allen Gathman · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Crump
Only 3% stay in Crump for work; outside it, Savannah is the main destination (17%, 5 miles). 2% of workers work from home; Tennessee has 13%. The average commute takes 31 minutes each way, next to 26 for Tennessee and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Crump and work: the main findings
Crump and Savannah trade workers both ways
Savannah is the top workplace for Crump residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Crump come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Crump makes and builds things
54% of the jobs based in Crump are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Crump residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 312 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Crump’s working residents head each day
Where Crump clocks in
17% of workers
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 54% of the jobs in Crump
392 jobs are based in Crump.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crump, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 392. 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 Crump’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Crump goes to work
About 30% 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.
In and out of Crump on a workday
On a workday 302 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 382 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.26 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Tennessee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crump workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 447 commuters (the 2% 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.
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 Crump: questions
What is the median household income in Crump?
$43,750 (±$9,428) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crump?
15.2%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crump?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crump work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (17%, 5 mi), Jackson (7%, 41 mi), Adamsville (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crump without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crump, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crump
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.