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Jobs & commute in Toone

With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Toone works elsewhere

Only 3% work in Toone itself; outside it, Jackson draws the most (20%, 22 miles). There are 28 jobs in Toone; 111 of its residents have a job. The trip to work takes 24 minutes on average (Tennessee 26, U.S. 26).

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

Day and night

How a workday changes Toone

On a workday 108 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.

108live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
25work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night260
Workday180
260live here− 110head out to work+ 25come in to work= 180on a workday

About 180 people are in Toone on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.25jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The commute map

Commuting out of Toone: the destinations

Paducah: 2 residents work here (2%)SilertonMedonTooneMiddleton: 2 residents work here (2%)Whiteville: 3 residents work here (3%)DyerBolivar: 16 residents work here (14%)Henderson: 3 residents work here (3%)SelmerCovington: 2 residents work here (2%)Memphis: 4 residents work here (4%)Jackson: 22 residents work here (20%)Nashville: 7 residents work here (6%)JacksonBolivarNashvilleMemphisWhitevilleHendersonToone
1
Jackson21.9 mi away
20%22
2
Bolivar7.2 mi away
14%16
3
Nashville133.9 mi away
6%7
4
Memphis59.8 mi away
4%4
5
Toone (in town)right here
3%3
6
Whiteville11.4 mi away
3%3
7
Henderson17.8 mi away
3%3
8
Paducah, KY119.7 mi away
2%2
9
Middleton20.1 mi away
2%2
10
Covington41.7 mi away
2%2
Everywhere elseother towns and states
42%47
The top trips

Where Toone clocks in

Lines 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 jobs

Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Toone

Jobs based in TooneJobs Toone residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%21%
Trade, transport & utilities7%18%
Services: health, schools, offices93%61%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less50%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month39%28%
Over $3,333 a month11%57%

Who does it

29 or younger7%17%
30 to 5446%54%
55 and older46%29%
−66%

Jobs based in Toone, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 28. 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 Toone’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Time on the road

Commuting from Toone: about 24 minutes a trip

A year of commuting
187 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Toone24 min
Tennessee26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
8%

of Toone workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How Toone gets to work
100%Drive alone

Share of the 97 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

Where in the region Toone works

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miJackson: 20% · 21.9 miBolivar: 14% · 7.2 miNashville: 6% · 133.9 miMemphis: 4% · 59.8 miWhiteville: 3% · 11.4 miHenderson: 3% · 17.8 miPaducah: 2% · 119.7 miMiddleton: 2% · 20.1 miCovington: 2% · 41.7 miJackson 20%Bolivar 14%Nashville 6%Whiteville 3%Toone
TooneTop destinations (size = commuters)
25%Under 10 mi27 residents
39%10–24 mi42 residents
14%25–50 mi15 residents
23%Over 50 mi25 residents

About 23% 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 2023.

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Toone: questions

What is the median household income in Toone?

$37,063 (±$4,428) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Toone?

45.0%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Toone?

24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.

Where do people who live in Toone work?

3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (20%, 22 mi), Bolivar (14%, 7 mi), Nashville (6%, 134 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Can you get around Toone without a car?

0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Toone, from the people who make the trip.

Town Square →
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Beyond the commute

More of Toone

Toone home →

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.