Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Most of Minor Hill commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Minor Hill itself; outside it, Pulaski draws the most (32%, 12 miles). There are 18 jobs in Minor Hill; 200 of its residents have a job. 6% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Tennessee as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Minor Hill apart on work
Minor Hill is a place people come home to
There are 18 jobs based in Minor Hill, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Minor Hill has about 350 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Minor Hill works in Pulaski
64 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Pulaski, 12 miles away. That’s 32 times as many as work in Minor Hill itself. The commute map ↓
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 200 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who works in Minor Hill, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 199 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Minor Hill on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where Minor Hill’s working residents head each day
Where Minor Hill clocks in
32% 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.
Jobs in Minor Hill: what the 18 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minor Hill, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 18. 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 Minor Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Minor Hill: about 30 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minor Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 310 commuters (the 6% 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.
How many miles Minor Hill commutes
About 29% 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.
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 Minor Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Minor Hill?
$52,845 (±$10,248) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minor Hill?
16.3%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minor Hill?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minor Hill work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pulaski (32%, 12 mi), Nashville (6%, 80 mi), Lewisburg (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Minor Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Minor Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minor Hill
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.