Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]) · CC BY 3.0La Grange has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
4 jobs are based in La Grange, against 69 working residents. Hardly any stay in La Grange for work; outside it, Memphis is the main destination (35%, 41 miles). 0% of workers work from home, against 13% across Tennessee.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of La Grange
On a workday 69 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 56 people are in La Grange on a workday afternoon, 54% 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.
Where people from La Grange work
Where La Grange clocks in
35% of workers
14% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in La Grange
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 La Grange’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 37 minutes each way for La Grange’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Grange workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24 commuters (the 0% 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 commute from La Grange, by distance
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.
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 La Grange: questions
What is the median household income in La Grange?
$56,250 (±$35,362) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Grange?
12.9%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Grange?
37 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in La Grange work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Memphis (35%, 41 mi), Collierville (14%, 26 mi), Germantown (4%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around La Grange without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Grange, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Grange
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.