Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Spring Hill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Measured by household income, Spring Hill is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns. There are 9,866 jobs in Spring Hill, and 24,226 of its residents work somewhere. Spring Hill grades A for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Spring Hill stands out on work
Spring Hill has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Spring Hill went from 6,164 in 2013 to 9,866 in 2023, +60%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
38% of the jobs based in Spring Hill are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Spring Hill’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Spring Hill
69% of Spring Hill residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 46% of the jobs based in Spring Hill pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Spring Hill
23% of Spring Hill workers work from home, against 13% across Tennessee. Time on the road ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Spring Hill
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Spring Hill is better than 94% of U.S. towns, #11 of 177 in Tennessee. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Spring Hill’s grade. It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spring Hill could be anywhere from A to A+.
What Spring Hill’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Hill, 2013 → 2023: 6,164 → 9,866. 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 Spring Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Tennessee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 22,541 commuters (the 23% 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 many people are in Spring Hill by day
On a workday 22,426 residents head out to work, 1,800 work right here, and 8,066 people come in from elsewhere.
About 47,000 people are in Spring Hill on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
26% of working residents work in Franklin
Where Spring Hill clocks in
26% 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.
The distance from Spring Hill to work
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.
Getting around Spring Hill: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Hill is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns, #85 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 29,354 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 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 0.9% of Spring Hill households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Spring Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Spring Hill ranks: 37th of 720 U.S. towns of 43,000 to 83,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
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| 7 | Brentwood TN | 45,313 | $182K | 3.6% | 2.6% | 12% | A+ |
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| 35 | Bloomfield Township MI | 43,904 | $163K | 4.8% | 3.6% | 7% | A |
| 36 | Deerfield Township OH | 43,979 | $125K | 4.9% | 2.7% | 8% | A |
| 37 | Spring Hill TN | 61,336 | $112K | 4.3% | 2.1% | 7% | A |
| 38 | Draper UT | 50,652 | $129K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 14% | A |
| 39 | Westfield Washington Township IN | 70,020 | $121K | 4.4% | 2.8% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Collierville TN | 51,909 | $139K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 20% | A |
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| 124 | Bartlett TN | 56,416 | $102K | 5.1% | 3.4% | 10% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 720 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Spring Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Work in the towns next to Spring Hill
The biggest share goes to Columbia (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Hill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Hill | – | A | C+ | 30 min | $112,013 |
| Thompson's Station | under 2% | A− | C− | 31 min | $132,647 |
| Columbia | 4% | B− | B | 28 min | $63,719 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Spring Hill’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 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 Spring Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Hill?
$112,013 (±$9,123) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Hill?
4.3%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Hill?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Hill work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Franklin (26%, 12 mi), Nashville (26%, 30 mi), Brentwood (7%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Hill walkable?
Spring Hill is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Hill
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. 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.