Work means Chattanooga for more than half of Mowbray Mountain’s working residents
Measured by household income, Mowbray Mountain is ahead of 71% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Mowbray Mountain B+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 1% work in Mowbray Mountain; the top destination outside it is Chattanooga (52%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Mowbray Mountain
More than half of Mowbray Mountain works in Chattanooga
350 working residents, 52%, have their main job in Chattanooga, 15 miles away. That’s 52 times as many as work in Mowbray Mountain itself. The commute map ↓
Mowbray Mountain is a place people come home to
There are 32 jobs based in Mowbray Mountain, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mowbray Mountain has about 1,100 people in it, 38% 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; with 678 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Mowbray Mountain’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Mowbray Mountain is better than 67% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($93,293, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Mowbray Mountain’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mowbray Mountain could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The places Mowbray Mountain commutes to
Where Mowbray Mountain clocks in
52% of workers
8% 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.
Who works in Mowbray Mountain, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 670 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Mowbray Mountain on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer than live here.
0.05 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The 32 jobs based in Mowbray Mountain
32 jobs are based in Mowbray Mountain.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mowbray Mountain, 2014 → 2024: 275 → 32. 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 Mowbray Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Mowbray Mountain
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mowbray Mountain workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 725 commuters (the 7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mowbray Mountain
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Mowbray Mountain, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mowbray Mountain is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mowbray Mountain near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 782 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.6% of Mowbray Mountain households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mowbray Mountain’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mowbray Mountain is 1,283rd of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 192 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 224 | Fairmount TN | 2,110 | $137K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,281 | Garfield WI | 1,775 | $99K | 4.5% | 0.8% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,282 | Patterson Tract CA | 2,090 | $96K | 10.3% | 7.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,283 | Mowbray Mountain TN | 1,721 | $93K | 8.0% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,284 | Honeyville UT | 1,806 | $87K | 3.5% | 3.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,285 | Liberty Township IL | 1,339 | $93K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Mowbray Mountain, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Work in the towns next to Mowbray Mountain
The biggest share goes to Soddy-Daisy (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mowbray Mountain workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mowbray Mountain | – | B+ | D− | 29 min | $93,293 |
| Flat Top Mountain | under 2% | B− | D− | 33 min | $121,131 |
| Soddy-Daisy | 8% | B− | C− | 27 min | $75,113 |
| Falling Water | under 2% | A | C | 26 min | $111,842 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mowbray Mountain’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Mowbray Mountain: questions
What is the median household income in Mowbray Mountain?
$93,293 (±$10,051) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mowbray Mountain?
8.0%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mowbray Mountain?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mowbray Mountain work?
1% work in town.
Is Mowbray Mountain walkable?
Mowbray Mountain is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mowbray Mountain without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mowbray Mountain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mowbray Mountain
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.