Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Gadsden has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
13 jobs are based in Gadsden; 188 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Gadsden for work; outside it, Jackson is the main destination (29%, 12 miles). Home is the office for 2% of workers, where Tennessee as a whole 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 Gadsden
On a workday 187 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Gadsden on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 people from Gadsden work
Where Gadsden clocks in
29% of workers
10% 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.
Most jobs in Gadsden are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gadsden, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 13. 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 Gadsden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Gadsden’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gadsden workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 177 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.
The commute from Gadsden, by distance
About 19% 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 Gadsden: questions
What is the median household income in Gadsden?
$60,139 (±$11,309) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gadsden?
19.3%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gadsden?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gadsden work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (29%, 12 mi), Humboldt (10%, 6 mi), Alamo (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gadsden 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 Gadsden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gadsden
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.