Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Most of Eastview commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 10% of workers, where Tennessee as a whole has 13%. Eastview has 104 jobs, and 322 of its residents work somewhere. Working residents average 24 minutes each way; Tennessee averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Eastview, in brief
The distance from Eastview to work
About 31% 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.
Eastview quiets down on a workday
On a workday 315 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 97 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Eastview on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
18% of working residents work in Selmer
Where Eastview clocks in
18% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
Goods, not services: 42% of the jobs in Eastview
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eastview, 2013 → 2023: 35 → 104. 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 Eastview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Eastview: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eastview workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 332 commuters (the 11% 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.
Work next door: 18% of Eastview’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Selmer. Darker towns draw more of Eastview’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 Eastview: questions
What is the median household income in Eastview?
$58,750 (±$10,145) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eastview?
16.8%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eastview?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eastview work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Selmer (18%, 6 mi), Corinth (8%, 10 mi), Memphis (7%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Eastview 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 Eastview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eastview
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.