Photo: AppalachianCentrist · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Maynardville earn less than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 21.7% of residents; Tennessee has 13.8%. For jobs and income Maynardville is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten work in Maynardville itself; outside it, Knoxville draws the most (32%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Maynardville and work: the main findings
Maynardville is where the jobs are
Maynardville has 1,628 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
One in three of Maynardville works in Knoxville
315 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Knoxville, 21 miles away. That’s 4 times as many as work in Maynardville itself. The commute map ↓
Maynardville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Tennessee. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical 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; with 994 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Maynardville earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Maynardville’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($46,106, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Maynardville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Maynardville could be anywhere from D to C.
Who leaves Maynardville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 901 residents head out to work, 93 work right here, and 1,535 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Maynardville on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.6 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 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Maynardville
Where Maynardville clocks in
32% 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.
Commuting from Maynardville: about 34 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maynardville workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 734 commuters (the 18% 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 the 1,628 jobs in Maynardville are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maynardville, 2013 → 2023: 1,340 → 1,628. 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 Maynardville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Maynardville
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 Maynardville, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% 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 895 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). 11.6% of Maynardville households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Maynardville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Maynardville ranks: 4,159th of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 205 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,157 | Vassar MI | 2,685 | $59K | 14.8% | 10.9% | 9% | D |
| 4,158 | Eveleth MN | 3,381 | $51K | 14.8% | 5.7% | 11% | D |
| 4,159 | Maynardville TN | 2,723 | $46K | 21.7% | 6.4% | 9% | D |
| 4,160 | Montour NY | 2,170 | $64K | 16.6% | 10.2% | 8% | D |
| 4,161 | Pine Mountain Club CA | 2,838 | $69K | 10.3% | 9.9% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Maynardville, 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 Maynardville: questions
What is the median household income in Maynardville?
$46,106 (±$5,632) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maynardville?
21.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maynardville?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maynardville work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Knoxville (32%, 21 mi), Halls (3%, 14 mi), Oak Ridge (3%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maynardville walkable?
Maynardville is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maynardville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maynardville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maynardville
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.