Photo: Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Pocahontas commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Tennessee 13%). 31 jobs are based in Pocahontas, against 59 working residents. Only 2% work in Pocahontas; the top destination outside it is Middleton (25%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pocahontas on a workday afternoon
On a workday 58 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Pocahontas’ working residents head each day
Where Pocahontas clocks in
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.
Pocahontas makes things: 58% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pocahontas, 2014 → 2024: 21 → 31. 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 Pocahontas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pocahontas
of Pocahontas workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 139 commuters (the 0% 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 distance from Pocahontas to work
About 26% 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.
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 Pocahontas: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pocahontas?
3.1%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pocahontas work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middleton (25%, 5 mi), Bolivar (15%, 19 mi), Memphis (5%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Pocahontas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pocahontas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pocahontas
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.