Photo: Walker Kinsler · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Rogersville have lower incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Rogersville D; getting around on foot earns it A−. Below the poverty line: 15.7% of residents, where Tennessee as a whole has 13.8%. About one in four stay in Rogersville for work; outside it, Morristown is the main destination (11%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Rogersville, in brief
How Rogersville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rogersville is better than 12% of U.S. towns, #150 of 177 in Tennessee. Job access by car holds Rogersville’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (9.9%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rogersville could be anywhere from D to B.
Who commutes out of Rogersville, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,166 residents head out to work, 442 work right here, and 4,133 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,700 people are in Rogersville on a workday afternoon, 63% more than live here.
2.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Who travels to work in Rogersville, and from where
Where Rogersville clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
Inside Rogersville’s 4,575 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rogersville, 2014 → 2024: 5,020 → 4,575. 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 Rogersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Rogersville takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rogersville workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,420 commuters (the 8% 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 Rogersville goes to work
About 18% 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.
Rogersville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rogersville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns, #4 of 177 in Tennessee. Both inputs place Rogersville 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 1,550 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). 10.0% of Rogersville households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rogersville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Rogersville is 3,387th of 3,798 U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 414 | Coopertown TN | 4,843 | $118K | 9.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,385 | McCall ID | 4,133 | $60K | 16.0% | 5.4% | 47% | D |
| 3,386 | Delhi NY | 3,526 | $58K | 17.4% | 5.2% | 17% | D |
| 3,387 | Rogersville TN | 4,690 | $48K | 15.7% | 9.9% | 27% | D |
| 3,388 | Wilton ME | 3,878 | $63K | 14.6% | 6.8% | 11% | D |
| 3,389 | Portland NY | 3,926 | $66K | 19.8% | 7.3% | 13% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,798 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Rogersville, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
How Rogersville compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rogersville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogersville | – | D | A− | 28 min | $47,500 |
| Surgoinsville | under 2% | C− | C− | 24 min | $53,854 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rogersville’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 Rogersville: questions
What is the median household income in Rogersville?
$47,500 (±$3,401) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rogersville?
15.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rogersville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rogersville work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morristown (11%, 22 mi), Kingsport (8%, 27 mi), Johnson City (5%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Rogersville walkable?
Rogersville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rogersville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rogersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rogersville
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.