Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Gleason works elsewhere
For 4% of workers, the job is at home; Tennessee has 13%. 173 jobs are based in Gleason, and 530 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Gleason are C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Gleason, in a few figures
Fewer jobs are based in Gleason than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Gleason fell from 311 in 2013 to 173 in 2023, −44%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Few Gleason workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Tennessee. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 530 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Gleason’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Gleason is better than 17% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Gleason’s grade.
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Gleason’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Gleason could be anywhere from D to B−.
What Gleason’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gleason, 2013 → 2023: 311 → 173. 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 Gleason’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Gleason
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gleason workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 514 commuters (the 4% 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 many people are in Gleason by day
On a workday 514 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Gleason on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
16% of working residents work in Dresden
Where Gleason clocks in
16% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Gleason
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.
The commute in Gleason is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 537 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.2% of Gleason households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gleason’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Gleason ranks 3,931st of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 378 | Rossville TN | 1,215 | $120K | 7.3% | 6.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 825 | Orlinda TN | 1,028 | $84K | 6.4% | 3.1% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 921 | Unionville TN | 1,275 | $71K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,929 | DeLand Southwest FL | 1,024 | $43K | 45.2% | 0.0% | 0% | C− |
| 3,930 | Colon MI | 1,182 | $59K | 14.3% | 5.6% | 8% | C− |
| 3,931 | Gleason TN | 1,353 | $58K | 13.9% | 3.3% | 3% | C− |
| 3,932 | Colfax Township MI | 1,704 | $69K | 17.3% | 4.9% | 11% | C− |
| 3,933 | Wright Township MI | 1,600 | $54K | 10.9% | 6.9% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Gleason, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
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 Gleason: questions
What is the median household income in Gleason?
$57,917 (±$11,737) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gleason?
13.9%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gleason?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gleason work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dresden (16%, 7 mi), McKenzie (11%, 8 mi), Martin (9%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gleason walkable?
Gleason is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gleason without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gleason, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gleason
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.