Photo: NathanReed · CC BY 2.0Unemployment in Huntingdon (0.6%) is lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
About one in three work in Huntingdon itself; outside it, Nashville draws the most (7%, 92 miles). For jobs and income Huntingdon is better than 35% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (B−). Measured by household income, Huntingdon is behind 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Huntingdon: the figures worth knowing
Where Huntingdon’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Unemployment holds Huntingdon’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($51,969, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Huntingdon could be anywhere from C to B−.
Who leaves Huntingdon for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,144 residents head out to work, 514 work right here, and 2,666 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,000 people are in Huntingdon on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
1.9 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 2024, primary jobs.
The daily trip into Huntingdon
Where Huntingdon clocks in
5% of workers
3% 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.
A place that makes things: 28% of Huntingdon’s jobs are in goods
3,180 jobs are based in Huntingdon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Huntingdon, 2014 → 2024: 2,752 → 3,180. 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 Huntingdon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Huntingdon spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Huntingdon workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,604 commuters (the 6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Huntingdon
About 28% 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.
For most of Huntingdon, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,703 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). 3.0% of Huntingdon households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Huntingdon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,000 U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000, Huntingdon comes 2,723rd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Coopertown TN | 4,843 | $118K | 9.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,721 | Milbank SD | 3,512 | $56K | 13.2% | 1.4% | 49% | C |
| 2,722 | Bethel NY | 4,296 | $67K | 12.8% | 3.0% | 9% | C |
| 2,723 | Huntingdon TN | 4,462 | $52K | 20.0% | 0.6% | 31% | C |
| 2,724 | Whitmore Township IL | 4,127 | $77K | 13.6% | 7.2% | 7% | C |
| 2,725 | Deer Creek Township IN | 4,651 | $62K | 8.6% | 6.2% | 17% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Huntingdon, 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 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 Huntingdon: questions
What is the median household income in Huntingdon?
$51,969 (±$3,772) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Huntingdon?
20.0%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Huntingdon?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Huntingdon work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (7%, 92 mi), Jackson (5%, 34 mi), McKenzie (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Huntingdon walkable?
Huntingdon is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Huntingdon
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. 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.