Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Dowelltown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any stay in Dowelltown for work; outside it, Nashville is the main destination (19%, 48 miles). Dowelltown has 2 jobs for 135 working residents. 6% of workers have no commute at all; Tennessee has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Dowelltown
On a workday 135 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Dowelltown on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 Dowelltown goes to work
Where Dowelltown clocks in
10% 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.
In Dowelltown, 100% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dowelltown, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 2. 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 Dowelltown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 45 minutes each way for Dowelltown’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dowelltown workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 160 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.
How far it is to work from Dowelltown
About 18% 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.
Dowelltown and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dowelltown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dowelltown | – | — | — | 45 min | $35,313 |
| Liberty | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Liberty: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dowelltown’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Dowelltown: questions
What is the median household income in Dowelltown?
$35,313 (±$17,726) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dowelltown?
33.4%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dowelltown?
45 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dowelltown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (19%, 48 mi), Smithville (14%, 8 mi), Lebanon (10%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dowelltown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dowelltown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dowelltown
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.