Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Hornbeak works elsewhere
1% of workers work from home; Tennessee has 13%. 19 jobs are based in Hornbeak, and 190 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Hornbeak; the top destination outside it is Union City (33%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Hornbeak: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 189 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Hornbeak on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Hornbeak: the destinations
Where Hornbeak clocks in
33% of workers
15% 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.
Jobs in Hornbeak: what the 19 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hornbeak, 2014 → 2024: 34 → 19. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hornbeak’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Hornbeak
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hornbeak workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 254 commuters (the 1% 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 far it is to work from Hornbeak
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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Hornbeak: questions
What is the median household income in Hornbeak?
$63,036 (±$16,144) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hornbeak?
9.2%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hornbeak?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hornbeak work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Union City (33%, 15 mi), Dyersburg (15%, 20 mi), Nashville (4%, 140 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hornbeak without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hornbeak, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hornbeak
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.