Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Lyles works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Lyles B−; getting around on foot earns it D. 31 jobs are based in Lyles, and 284 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 0% of workers; Tennessee has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lyles and work: the main findings
Lyles is a place people come home to
There are 31 jobs based in Lyles, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Lyles workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 26 across Tennessee. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Lyles workers work from home
Only 0% 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; with 284 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Lyles earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lyles is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lyles’ grade up (8.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($68,036, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Lyles’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lyles could be anywhere from D to A.
In and out of Lyles on a workday
On a workday 284 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Lyles on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
About 39 minutes each way for Lyles’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lyles workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 661 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.
17% of working residents work in Dickson
Where Lyles clocks in
17% of workers
13% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Lyles
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lyles, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 31. 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 Lyles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lyles
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Lyles gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lyles is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lyles near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 661 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). 0.0% of Lyles households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lyles’ commuters take a bus or train.
2,084th of 5,877: where Lyles ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 422 | Rossville TN | 1,215 | $120K | 7.3% | 6.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 472 | Berry Hill TN | 1,864 | $80K | 11.2% | 3.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 910 | Orlinda TN | 1,028 | $84K | 6.4% | 3.1% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,082 | Lower Frankford Township PA | 1,833 | $77K | 11.8% | 3.5% | <1% | B− |
| 2,083 | Sutton-Alpine AK | 1,598 | $75K | 3.2% | 9.0% | — | B− |
| 2,084 | Lyles TN | 1,385 | $68K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 0% | B− |
| 2,085 | Gridley IL | 1,428 | $67K | 5.7% | 2.6% | 2% | B− |
| 2,086 | Bloomfield PA | 1,248 | $74K | 9.5% | 2.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Lyles, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Around Lyles: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lyles workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyles | – | B− | D | 39 min | $68,036 |
| Bon Aqua Junction | under 2% | C | B | 34 min | $43,586 |
| Wrigley | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Wrigley: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lyles’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Lyles: questions
What is the median household income in Lyles?
$68,036 (±$37,920) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lyles?
8.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lyles?
39 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lyles work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dickson (17%, 10 mi), Franklin (13%, 28 mi), Nashville (12%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lyles walkable?
Lyles is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lyles 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 Lyles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lyles
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.