Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Albertville has lower household incomes than 80% of U.S. towns
About one in three work in Albertville itself; outside it, Guntersville draws the most (11%, 8 miles). 18.2% of residents live below the poverty line; Alabama has 15.6%. The two grades for Albertville are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Albertville in brief
Albertville is where the jobs are
Albertville has 13,835 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Albertville makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Albertville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Albertville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Albertville draws workers from far and wide
The 13,835 jobs in Albertville are filled from a wide area. Albertville’s own residents hold 19% and the ten next-biggest home towns 19%; the other 62% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Albertville are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Alabama. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Alabama worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Albertville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Albertville is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #131 of 187 in Alabama. Job access by car holds Albertville’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Albertville could be anywhere from D to C+.
How many people are in Albertville by day
On a workday 5,337 residents head out to work, 2,653 work right here, and 11,182 people come in from elsewhere.
About 30,000 people are in Albertville on a workday afternoon, 25% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
In Albertville, 45% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
13,835 jobs are based in Albertville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Albertville, 2013 → 2023: 11,030 → 13,835. 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 Albertville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Albertville live
Where Albertville clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
7% of workersLines 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.
Getting to work from Albertville takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Albertville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,984 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% 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 many miles Albertville commutes
About 21% 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.
Few in Albertville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Albertville is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #72 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.7% across Alabama.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,232 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.1% of Albertville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Albertville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 17,000 to 32,000, and where Albertville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Trussville AL | 27,273 | $123K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Helena AL | 23,388 | $115K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,420 | Michigan Township IN | 26,881 | $58K | 17.8% | 9.7% | 23% | C− |
| 1,421 | Radcliff KY | 22,576 | $59K | 15.9% | 9.3% | 10% | C− |
| 1,422 | Albertville AL | 23,710 | $56K | 18.2% | 6.0% | 33% | C− |
| 1,423 | Mount Pleasant MI | 20,925 | $45K | 31.4% | 7.6% | 32% | C− |
| 1,424 | Starkville MS | 25,754 | $42K | 30.7% | 6.1% | 31% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,577 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Albertville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Albertville and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Boaz (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Albertville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albertville | – | C− | C+ | 20 min | $56,099 |
| Boaz | 7% | C+ | C | 22 min | $49,846 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Albertville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
Jobs and commuting in Albertville: questions
What is the median household income in Albertville?
$56,099 (±$5,082) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Albertville?
18.2%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Albertville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Albertville work?
33% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Guntersville (11%, 8 mi), Huntsville (7%, 40 mi), Boaz (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Albertville walkable?
Albertville is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Albertville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Albertville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Albertville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.