Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0For about half of its working residents, Mascot is a commute to Knoxville
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers; Tennessee has 13%. The two grades for Mascot are C+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Hardly any stay in Mascot for work; outside it, Knoxville is the main destination (45%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mascot stands out on work
Nearly half of Mascot works in Knoxville
543 working residents, 45%, have their main job in Knoxville, 12 miles away. That’s far more as work in Mascot itself. The commute map ↓
Mascot is a place people come home to
There are 228 jobs based in Mascot, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mascot has about 2,300 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Mascot workers work from home
Only 3% 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Mascot
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mascot is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #83 of 177 in Tennessee. Job access by car holds Mascot’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mascot could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Where the trip to work from Mascot ends
Where Mascot clocks in
45% 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.
Who works in Mascot, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,192 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 224 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Mascot on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.19 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Getting to work from Mascot takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mascot workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,317 commuters (the 3% 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.
What Mascot’s employers do
228 jobs are based in Mascot.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mascot, 2013 → 2023: 227 → 228. 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 Mascot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mascot
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.
For most of Mascot, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mascot is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns, #170 of 177 in Tennessee. Both inputs place Mascot 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 1,358 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Mascot households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mascot’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Mascot is 2,577th of 4,453 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 399 | Piperton TN | 2,889 | $130K | 4.6% | 3.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 417 | Falling Water TN | 2,315 | $112K | 7.3% | 1.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,575 | Cresson Township PA | 2,809 | $62K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,576 | Forest City IA | 4,143 | $69K | 12.4% | 2.7% | 48% | C+ |
| 2,577 | Mascot TN | 3,277 | $60K | 19.2% | 3.5% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,578 | Seneca IL | 2,310 | $87K | 22.2% | 4.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,579 | Aumsville OR | 4,241 | $91K | 13.5% | 7.3% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Mascot, 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 Mascot: questions
What is the median household income in Mascot?
$60,250 (±$14,744) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mascot?
19.2%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mascot?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mascot work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Knoxville (45%, 12 mi), Oak Ridge (3%, 30 mi), Nashville (3%, 169 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mascot walkable?
Mascot is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mascot without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mascot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mascot
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.