Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Medina has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For jobs and income Medina is better than 84% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (C−). There are 538 jobs in Medina for 2,243 working residents. Measured by household income, Medina is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Medina in brief
The better-paid jobs are outside Medina
65% of Medina residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 27% of the jobs based in Medina pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
42% of Medina works in Jackson
931 working residents, 42%, have their main job in Jackson, 11 miles away. That’s 11 times as many as work in Medina itself. The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Medina pay little
36% of the jobs based in Medina pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 46% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Medina has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Medina went from 341 in 2014 to 538 in 2024, +58%. The jobs ↓
Medina is a place people come home to
There are 538 jobs based in Medina, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Medina has about 4,100 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Medina’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Medina’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Medina could be anywhere from B to A+.
The kinds of work in Medina
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Medina, 2014 → 2024: 341 → 538. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Medina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
42% of working residents work in Jackson
Where Medina clocks in
42% of workers
8% 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.
Medina by day and by night
On a workday 2,162 residents head out to work, 81 work right here, and 457 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Medina on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Medina’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Medina workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,557 commuters (the 11% 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.
Where in the region Medina works
About 17% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Medina walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,885 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 Medina households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Medina’s commuters take a bus or train.
Medina is 625th of 3,375 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 353 | Tellico Village TN | 7,414 | $107K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 10% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 623 | Menands NY | 4,615 | $81K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| 624 | Metamora Township MI | 4,573 | $109K | 3.9% | 3.1% | 6% | A− |
| 625 | Medina TN | 5,813 | $108K | 2.6% | 3.3% | 4% | A− |
| 626 | Gardner Township IL | 4,551 | $104K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 3% | A− |
| 627 | Cambria NY | 5,727 | $112K | 5.0% | 3.8% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 3% | 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 Medina, 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 2024, 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 Medina: questions
What is the median household income in Medina?
$107,807 (±$12,271) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Medina?
2.6%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Medina?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Medina work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (42%, 11 mi), Milan (8%, 7 mi), Humboldt (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Medina walkable?
Medina is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Medina 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 Medina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Medina
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.