Photo: DwayneP. The original uploader was DwayneP at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Strawberry Plains commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% work in Strawberry Plains itself; outside it, Knoxville draws the most (28%, 18 miles). 540 jobs are based in Strawberry Plains, against 1,000 working residents. Strawberry Plains grades A for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Strawberry Plains and work: the main findings
Strawberry Plains makes and builds things
80% of the jobs based in Strawberry Plains are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Strawberry Plains residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Strawberry Plains pay better than its residents’ jobs
87% of the jobs based in Strawberry Plains pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 56% of the jobs Strawberry Plains residents hold. 96% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Strawberry Plains. The jobs ↓
28% of Strawberry Plains works in Knoxville
277 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Knoxville, 18 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Strawberry Plains itself. The commute map ↓
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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Strawberry Plains
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Strawberry Plains is better than 85% of U.S. towns, #24 of 177 in Tennessee. The poverty rate holds Strawberry Plains’ grade up (3.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($75,027, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Strawberry Plains could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Goods jobs make up 80% of work in Strawberry Plains
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strawberry Plains, 2014 → 2024: 507 → 540. 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 Strawberry Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Strawberry Plains’ working residents head each day
Where Strawberry Plains clocks in
28% of workers
10% of workers
6% 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 daily flow of workers through Strawberry Plains
On a workday 980 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 520 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Strawberry Plains on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Time on the road from Strawberry Plains: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strawberry Plains workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,168 commuters (the 9% 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.
Where in the region Strawberry Plains works
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.
Strawberry Plains is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Strawberry Plains is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns, #173 of 177 in Tennessee. Both inputs place Strawberry Plains 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 1,284 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). 2.7% of Strawberry Plains households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Strawberry Plains’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600, Strawberry Plains comes 535th 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 196 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 533 | Madrid IA | 2,820 | $90K | 6.3% | 1.7% | 6% | A |
| 534 | Cascade Township MN | 2,810 | $150K | 4.8% | 3.7% | 1% | A |
| 535 | Strawberry Plains TN | 2,669 | $75K | 3.0% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| 536 | Manchester PA | 2,821 | $77K | 7.2% | 0.1% | 3% | A |
| 537 | Towanda Township IL | 1,998 | $119K | 2.9% | 3.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | 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 Strawberry Plains, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
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 Strawberry Plains: questions
What is the median household income in Strawberry Plains?
$75,027 (±$16,954) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strawberry Plains?
3.0%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strawberry Plains?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strawberry Plains work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Knoxville (28%, 18 mi), Sevierville (10%, 13 mi), Morristown (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Strawberry Plains walkable?
Strawberry Plains is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Strawberry Plains without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Strawberry Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strawberry Plains
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.