Photo: RageBanken · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Milan are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
2% of workers have no commute at all; Tennessee has 13%. Poverty touches 21.3% of residents; Tennessee has 13.8%. For jobs and income Milan is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Milan apart on work
Why Milan gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Milan’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($43,886, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Milan could be anywhere from D to C+.
Milan’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milan workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,183 commuters (the 2% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Milan
On a workday 2,658 residents head out to work, 843 work right here, and 3,783 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,500 people are in Milan on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
24% of working residents work in Jackson
Where Milan clocks in
24% of workers
5% 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.
A place that makes things: 28% of Milan’s jobs are in goods
4,626 jobs are based in Milan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milan, 2013 → 2023: 3,931 → 4,626. 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 Milan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Milan
About 19% 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.
For most of Milan, work means a drive
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 3,235 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). 10.8% of Milan households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milan’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Milan compares with U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 226 | Signal Mountain TN | 8,824 | $141K | 3.3% | 2.4% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 331 | Harrison TN | 8,011 | $89K | 3.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 377 | Tellico Village TN | 7,414 | $107K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,729 | Rochester IN | 6,132 | $57K | 18.1% | 7.7% | 29% | D |
| 2,730 | Tamaqua PA | 6,929 | $46K | 26.7% | 6.4% | 9% | D |
| 2,731 | Milan TN | 8,367 | $44K | 21.3% | 6.4% | 24% | D |
| 2,732 | Ogdensburg NY | 9,123 | $62K | 16.1% | 8.4% | 38% | D |
| 2,733 | Potsdam NY | 8,019 | $35K | 29.0% | 4.8% | 33% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,947 | 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 Milan, 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 Milan: questions
What is the median household income in Milan?
$43,886 (±$10,378) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milan?
21.3%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milan?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milan work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (24%, 18 mi), Humboldt (5%, 10 mi), Memphis (4%, 88 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milan walkable?
Milan is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milan 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 Milan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milan
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.