Work & commute · Pine Crest

Work & commute in Pine Crest, TN

Most working residents leave Pine Crest for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Johnson City (42%), Elizabethton (12%) and Kingsport (8%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10 of 990 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 980 Pine Crest residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pine Crest.

980live here, work elsewhere

10live and work here

124work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pine Crest goes to work

Johnson City5.3 mi away

42%411

Elizabethton5.1 mi away

12%121

Kingsport20.4 mi away

8%75

Jonesborough9.3 mi away

2%23

Knoxville94.2 mi away

2%20

Bristol19 mi away

2%18

Oak Grove11.5 mi away

2%15

Asheville, NC51.7 mi away

1%14

Morristown55.6 mi away

1%13

Erwin11.7 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%268

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

How far

How far Pine Crest commutes

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

61%

17%

19%

61%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pine Crest is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.14 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Pine Crest are

134 jobs are based in Pine Crest. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pine Crest’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pine Crest

134 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Pine Crest residents hold

990 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month45%

−82%

Jobs based in Pine Crest, 2013 → 2023: 747 → 134. 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.