Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]) · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Halls trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 16.6%, where Tennessee as a whole has 13.8%. Halls grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 3% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Tennessee as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Halls at work: what stands out
Halls makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Halls are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Halls residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
Few Halls workers work from home
Only 3% 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 869 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Halls
On income, poverty and job access, Halls is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Halls’ grade up (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($43,750, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Halls’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Halls could be anywhere from D to C.
In Halls, 39% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
586 jobs are based in Halls.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Halls, 2013 → 2023: 614 → 586. 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 Halls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Tennessee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Halls workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 789 commuters (the 3% 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 daily commute in and out of Halls
On a workday 772 residents head out to work, 97 work right here, and 489 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Halls on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.67 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
21% of working residents work in Ripley
Where Halls clocks in
21% of workers
14% of workers
10% 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 Halls
About 25% 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.
Most of Halls commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Halls is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Tennessee, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 812 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). 8.7% of Halls households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Halls’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Halls ranks: 4,667th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 195 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,665 | Gordon NE | 1,417 | $59K | 14.1% | 2.4% | 40% | D |
| 4,666 | Port Allegany PA | 2,031 | $66K | 19.9% | 7.6% | 20% | D |
| 4,667 | Halls TN | 2,035 | $44K | 16.6% | 4.3% | 11% | D |
| 4,668 | Long Beach WA | 1,769 | $53K | 13.1% | 3.3% | 26% | D |
| 4,669 | Eagle River WI | 1,715 | $55K | 14.4% | 4.9% | 27% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Halls, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Halls and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Halls workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halls | – | D | B− | 23 min | $43,750 |
| Gates | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Gates: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Halls’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 Halls: questions
What is the median household income in Halls?
$43,750 (±$14,939) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Halls?
16.6%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Halls?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Halls work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ripley (21%, 12 mi), Dyersburg (14%, 12 mi), Memphis (10%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Halls walkable?
Halls is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Halls without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Halls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Halls
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.