Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]) · CC BY 3.0Where Moscow earns its living
Only 3% work in Moscow itself; outside it, Memphis draws the most (29%, 33 miles). For 3% of workers, the job is at home, next to 13% for Tennessee as a whole. A typical one-way commute lasts 30 minutes; Tennessee averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Moscow in brief
Moscow makes and builds things
89% of the jobs based in Moscow are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Moscow residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
29% of Moscow works in Memphis
78 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Memphis, 33 miles away. That’s 10 times as many as work in Moscow itself. The commute map ↓
Most jobs in Moscow pay over $40,000 a year
73% of the jobs based in Moscow pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
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 267 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Factories, building and farms: 89% of the jobs in Moscow
393 jobs are based in Moscow.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moscow, 2013 → 2023: 390 → 393. 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 Moscow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Moscow ends
Where Moscow clocks in
29% of workers
16% 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 many people are in Moscow by day
On a workday 260 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 386 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Moscow on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Moscow
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moscow workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 291 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.
The commute from Moscow, by distance
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 Moscow: questions
What is the median household income in Moscow?
$51,250 (±$14,902) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moscow?
25.4%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moscow?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moscow work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Memphis (29%, 33 mi), Collierville (16%, 18 mi), Somerville (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Moscow without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moscow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moscow
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.