Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0Loudon has 2.4 jobs for every working resident: 6,006 people commute in to work
Measured by household income, Loudon is behind 83% of U.S. towns. There are 6,560 jobs in Loudon, and 2,754 of its residents work somewhere. Loudon grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Loudon: the gist
Loudon is where the jobs are
Loudon has 6,560 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 11,000 people are in town, 55% more than the 7,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Loudon makes and builds things
53% of the jobs based in Loudon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Loudon residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Loudon draws workers from far and wide
The 6,560 jobs in Loudon are filled from a wide area. Loudon’s own residents hold 8% and the ten next-biggest home towns 21%; the other 71% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Loudon’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Loudon is Knoxville, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (386) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Loudon are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Tennessee. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Tennessee worker. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Loudon’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Loudon is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #85 of 177 in Tennessee. Unemployment holds Loudon’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($53,650, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Loudon could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Loudon
On a workday 2,200 residents head out to work and 554 work right here.
About 11,000 people are in Loudon on a workday afternoon, 55% more 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.
Making and building: 53% of jobs based in Loudon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loudon, 2013 → 2023: 5,531 → 6,560. 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 Loudon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Loudon, and from where
Where Loudon clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Loudon
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.
How long Loudon spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loudon workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,494 commuters (the 7% 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.
Driving is how Loudon gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Loudon is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #98 of 177 in Tennessee. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of 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 2,685 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). 11.1% of Loudon households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Loudon’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Loudon is 2,061st of 3,167 U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 215 | Signal Mountain TN | 8,824 | $141K | 3.3% | 2.4% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 330 | Harrison TN | 8,011 | $89K | 3.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 368 | Tellico Village TN | 7,414 | $107K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,059 | Desert Palms CA | 6,579 | $80K | 9.6% | 8.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,060 | Connell WA | 5,080 | $78K | 7.9% | 4.0% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,061 | Loudon TN | 6,963 | $54K | 18.5% | 2.4% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,062 | Washington Township IN | 6,498 | $62K | 11.7% | 2.9% | 25% | C+ |
| 2,063 | Chocolay Township MI | 6,014 | $87K | 9.4% | 4.4% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,167 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Loudon, 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 Loudon: questions
What is the median household income in Loudon?
$53,650 (±$14,023) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loudon?
18.5%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loudon?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loudon work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Knoxville (14%, 28 mi), Vonore (8%, 12 mi), Oak Ridge (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Loudon walkable?
Loudon is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loudon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loudon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loudon
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.