Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Ducktown has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 260 people commute in to work
Employers in Ducktown report 274 jobs, against 139 working residents. About one in ten work in Ducktown; the top destination outside it is Chattanooga (9%, 49 miles). The trip to work takes 27 minutes on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Ducktown: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 125 residents head out to work and 14 work right here.
About 580 people are in Ducktown on a workday afternoon, 31% more 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.
The towns that send workers to Ducktown
Where Ducktown clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Making and building: 33% of jobs based in Ducktown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ducktown, 2013 → 2023: 309 → 274. 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 Ducktown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Ducktown takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ducktown workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 133 commuters (the 7% 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.
The distance from Ducktown to work
About 32% 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.
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 Ducktown: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ducktown?
36.9%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ducktown?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ducktown work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chattanooga (9%, 49 mi), Blue Ridge (8%, 12 mi), Benton (6%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ducktown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 40% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ducktown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ducktown
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.