Work & commute · Surgoinsville

Work & commute in Surgoinsville, TN

Most working residents leave Surgoinsville for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Rogersville (17%), Kingsport (17%) and Morristown (6%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 705 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 689 Surgoinsville residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 147 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Surgoinsville.

689live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

147work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Surgoinsville goes to work

Rogersville9.1 mi away

17%122

Kingsport17.9 mi away

17%122

Morristown30.7 mi away

6%41

Johnson City28.2 mi away

5%38

Church Hill8.8 mi away

5%37

Greeneville21.2 mi away

3%19

Surgoinsville (in town)right here

2%16

Knoxville69.9 mi away

2%16

Bristol36.2 mi away

1%10

Memphis409.2 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%276

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

How far

How far Surgoinsville commutes

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

30%

36%

17%

30%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Surgoinsville is a commuter town

0.23jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Surgoinsville are

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

Jobs based in Surgoinsville

163 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less36%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month27%

Jobs Surgoinsville residents hold

705 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+35%

Jobs based in Surgoinsville, 2013 → 2023: 121 → 163. 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.