Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Hohenwald has higher unemployment (8.0%) than 88% of U.S. towns
For 2% of workers, the job is at home, where Tennessee as a whole has 13%. Jobs and income earn Hohenwald D; getting around on foot earns it C−. Measured by household income, Hohenwald is behind 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hohenwald: the figures worth knowing
Hohenwald’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hohenwald is Nashville, 61 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (112) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Hohenwald is where the jobs are
Hohenwald has 2,186 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Few Hohenwald workers work from home
Only 2% 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.
Hohenwald’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hohenwald is better than 5% of U.S. towns, #172 of 177 in Tennessee. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hohenwald’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hohenwald could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Short hops and long hauls from Hohenwald
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.
Hohenwald by day and by night
On a workday 948 residents head out to work, 399 work right here, and 1,787 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,000 people are in Hohenwald on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Commuting from Hohenwald: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hohenwald workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,564 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.
Where Hohenwald’s workforce comes from
Where Hohenwald clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
The 2,186 jobs based in Hohenwald
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hohenwald, 2013 → 2023: 2,147 → 2,186. 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 Hohenwald’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Hohenwald: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hohenwald is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #122 of 177 in Tennessee. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Tennessee.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,597 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). 4.6% of Hohenwald households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hohenwald’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hohenwald next to U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 419 | Coopertown TN | 4,843 | $118K | 9.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,911 | Newton MS | 3,040 | $32K | 29.4% | 6.6% | 23% | D |
| 3,912 | Checotah OK | 3,096 | $37K | 18.8% | 7.4% | 19% | D |
| 3,913 | Hohenwald TN | 4,151 | $51K | 20.4% | 8.0% | 30% | D |
| 3,914 | Palermo CA | 5,266 | $51K | 20.1% | 10.6% | 4% | D |
| 3,915 | Park Hill OK | 3,237 | $47K | 23.7% | 7.5% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,112 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Hohenwald, 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 Hohenwald: questions
What is the median household income in Hohenwald?
$51,440 (±$13,808) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hohenwald?
20.4%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hohenwald?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hohenwald work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (8%, 61 mi), Columbia (7%, 29 mi), Franklin (4%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hohenwald walkable?
Hohenwald is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hohenwald without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hohenwald, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hohenwald
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.