Photo: Brian Stansberry (photographer) · CC BY 3.0Greenback has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
256 jobs are based in Greenback, against 469 working residents. Jobs and income earn Greenback B−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 2% work in Greenback itself; outside it, Knoxville draws the most (18%, 25 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Greenback, in a few figures
Greenback’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Greenback is better than 53% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Greenback’s grade.
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Greenback’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, Greenback could be anywhere from C to A−.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Greenback
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.
In and out of Greenback on a workday
On a workday 459 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 246 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Greenback on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Out of Greenback to work: where people go
Where Greenback clocks in
18% of workers
12% 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.
Greenback makes things: 77% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenback, 2013 → 2023: 215 → 256. 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 Greenback’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Greenback’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenback workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 533 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.
In Greenback, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenback is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Greenback near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 602 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). 0.9% of Greenback households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenback’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Greenback comes 1,523rd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 334 | Rossville TN | 1,215 | $120K | 7.3% | 6.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 721 | Orlinda TN | 1,028 | $84K | 6.4% | 3.1% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 804 | Unionville TN | 1,275 | $71K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,521 | Camp Creek Township OH | 1,012 | $79K | 4.1% | 4.5% | 1% | B− |
| 1,522 | Shelton NE | 1,042 | $81K | 6.8% | 5.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,523 | Greenback TN | 1,251 | $73K | 9.9% | 4.1% | 2% | B− |
| 1,524 | Buckeye Township IL | 1,170 | $76K | 7.1% | 4.3% | 3% | B− |
| 1,525 | Palermo ME | 1,636 | $89K | 4.8% | 2.3% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Greenback, 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 Greenback: questions
What is the median household income in Greenback?
$72,961 (±$22,595) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenback?
9.9%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenback?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenback work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Knoxville (18%, 25 mi), Maryville (12%, 13 mi), Alcoa (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenback walkable?
Greenback is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenback without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenback, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenback
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.