Memphis

City Commute Profile

Memphis, TN

Where Memphis’s 270,870 resident workers go each day — 71.5% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Olive Branch.

TennesseeLODES 2023 data
70
Commute Score

70 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Memphis at a glance
Employed Residents
270,870
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
13.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
71.5%
Share working within the area
Work from home
9.2%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Olive Branch
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Memphis proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Memphis commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Memphis

270,870 commutes, one dot at a time

Memphis

Where 270,870 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Memphis, by worker count.

1Memphis0.0 mi193,788
2Olive Branch13.1 mi8,077
3Collierville15.7 mi7,437
4Bartlett10.2 mi7,385
5Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance)193.2 mi6,954
6Germantown9.7 mi5,516
7Southaven11.3 mi5,302
8Jackson73.2 mi1,606

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Memphis.

1Memphis0.0 mi193,788
2Bartlett10.2 mi18,036
3Collierville15.7 mi13,080
4Germantown9.7 mi11,357
5Southaven11.3 mi10,894
6Olive Branch13.1 mi9,345
7Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance)193.2 mi5,543
8Horn Lake12.7 mi4,226

Top industries

The sectors that employ Memphis’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
TRTransportation and Warehousing15.6%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance14.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services9.0%
RTRetail Trade8.7%
EDEducational Services7.4%
AFAccommodation and Food Services7.1%
WSWholesale Trade6.4%
MFManufacturing5.3%
PAPublic Administration5.2%

Memphis city profile

Who lives in Memphis — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
618,980
Median age
34.2yrs
Median household income
$51,736
Median home value
$169,000
Median gross rent
$1,181/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
28.0%
Poverty rate
23.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Memphis

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

9 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps83%
8 Gbps2%
See all internet providers in Memphis

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).