Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0Morrison draws 1,215 commuters a day, with 4.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 7% stay in Morrison for work; outside it, McMinnville is the main destination (19%, 9 miles). Employers in Morrison report 1,235 jobs, against 283 working residents. For 3% of workers, the job is at home; Tennessee has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Morrison and work: the main findings
Morrison fills up on a workday
Morrison has 1,235 jobs, 4.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,700 people are in town, more than double the 790 who live here. Day and night ↓
Morrison makes and builds things
83% of the jobs based in Morrison are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Morrison residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 35%. The jobs ↓
Morrison and McMinnville trade workers both ways
McMinnville is the top workplace for Morrison residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Morrison come from (17% of its jobs). 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 283 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who leaves Morrison for work, and who comes in
On a workday 263 residents head out to work and 20 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Morrison on a workday afternoon, 121% more 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.
Morrison works in goods: 83% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morrison, 2013 → 2023: 1,539 → 1,235. 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 Morrison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Morrison, and from where
Where Morrison clocks in
19% of workers
5% 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.
How long Morrison spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morrison workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 289 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.
How far Morrison’s workers travel
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 Morrison: questions
What is the median household income in Morrison?
$37,500 (±$15,003) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morrison?
42.8%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morrison?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morrison work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McMinnville (19%, 9 mi), Nashville (11%, 63 mi), Smyrna (5%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Morrison 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 Morrison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morrison
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.