Photo: Pkeets · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: New Tazewell has 2.7 jobs per working resident, and 2,534 people come in to work
New Tazewell has 2,726 jobs for 1,007 working residents. Jobs and income earn New Tazewell C; getting around on foot earns it C−. Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where New Tazewell stands out on work
New Tazewell is where the jobs are
New Tazewell has 2,726 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,600 people are in town, 60% more than the 2,800 who live here. Day and night ↓
New Tazewell makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in New Tazewell are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs New Tazewell residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from New Tazewell are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 26 across Tennessee. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Tennessee worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
How New Tazewell earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Tazewell is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #115 of 177 in Tennessee. Unemployment holds New Tazewell’s grade up (3.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($53,567, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Tazewell could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily commute in and out of New Tazewell
On a workday 815 residents head out to work and 192 work right here.
About 4,600 people are in New Tazewell on a workday afternoon, 60% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 51% of the jobs in New Tazewell
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Tazewell, 2014 → 2024: 2,844 → 2,726. 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 New Tazewell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from New Tazewell takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Tazewell workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,135 commuters (the 12% 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 trip into New Tazewell
Where New Tazewell clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from New Tazewell
About 17% 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 New Tazewell, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Tazewell is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns, #127 of 177 in Tennessee. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% 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 1,295 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). 6.9% of New Tazewell households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Tazewell’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Tazewell is 3,206th of 4,703 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 240 | Fairmount TN | 2,110 | $137K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,204 | Bellevue ID | 2,597 | $73K | 9.3% | 5.2% | 6% | C |
| 3,205 | Emmetsburg IA | 3,684 | $56K | 15.2% | 2.4% | 43% | C |
| 3,206 | New Tazewell TN | 2,846 | $54K | 12.5% | 3.2% | 19% | C |
| 3,207 | Quitman TX | 2,057 | $64K | 11.2% | 9.4% | 13% | C |
| 3,208 | Hayes Township MI | 2,839 | $78K | 8.6% | 6.3% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 0% | 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 New Tazewell, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Bordering towns draw 11% of New Tazewell’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Tazewell workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Tazewell | – | C | C− | 17 min | $53,567 |
| Tazewell | 11% | D− | C | 26 min | $41,836 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tazewell. Darker towns draw more of New Tazewell’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 New Tazewell: questions
What is the median household income in New Tazewell?
$53,567 (±$11,063) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Tazewell?
12.5%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Tazewell?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Tazewell work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tazewell (11%, 3 mi), Knoxville (9%, 38 mi), Morristown (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is New Tazewell walkable?
New Tazewell is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Tazewell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Tazewell, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Tazewell
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.