Work & commute · Mountain

Work & commute in Mountain, TN

About one in 4 of Mountain’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Boone (5%), Johnson City (5%) and Knoxville (3%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25%

221 of 887 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 666 Mountain residents head out of town to work, 221 work right here, and 1,161 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain.

666live here, work elsewhere

221live and work here

1,161work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain goes to work

Mountain City (in town)right here

25%221

Boone, NC19.3 mi away

5%47

Johnson City33.2 mi away

5%40

Knoxville124.4 mi away

3%26

Elizabethton25.7 mi away

2%20

Kingsport41.2 mi away

2%18

Bristol23.7 mi away

1%13

Greeneville60.2 mi away

1%12

Chattanooga216 mi away

1%9

Pigeon Forge108.6 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%474

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Mountain commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

52%

12%

13%

24%

52%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain is a job hub

1.56jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain are

1,382 jobs are based in Mountain. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain

1,382 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Mountain residents hold

887 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month48%

−9%

Jobs based in Mountain, 2013 → 2023: 1,517 → 1,382. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.