Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Households in Blountsville have lower incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
17.1% of residents are in poverty, where Alabama as a whole has 15.6%. Jobs and income earn Blountsville D; getting around on foot earns it D−. About one in ten work in Blountsville itself; outside it, Birmingham draws the most (12%, 40 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Blountsville stands out on work
Blountsville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Blountsville is Birmingham, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (83) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Blountsville makes and builds things
66% of the jobs based in Blountsville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Blountsville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Blountsville is where the jobs are
Blountsville has 1,097 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 668 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Blountsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Blountsville is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Blountsville’s grade up (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($48,182, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Blountsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Blountsville could be anywhere from D to C−.
Half of Blountsville commutes less than 33 miles
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Blountsville, 66% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,097 jobs are based in Blountsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blountsville, 2014 → 2024: 999 → 1,097. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blountsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Blountsville
On a workday 605 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 1,034 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Blountsville on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.6 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 2024, primary jobs.
The daily trip into Blountsville
Where Blountsville clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Blountsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blountsville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 682 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.
Most of Blountsville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blountsville is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Blountsville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 703 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). 14.2% of Blountsville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Blountsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,666th of 5,656: where Blountsville ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 382 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 501 | Vance AL | 2,332 | $95K | 7.3% | 1.3% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,664 | North Township OH | 1,549 | $61K | 18.0% | 1.2% | 2% | D |
| 4,665 | Seeley Lake MT | 1,496 | $50K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 25% | D |
| 4,666 | Blountsville AL | 1,816 | $48K | 17.1% | 3.5% | 9% | D |
| 4,667 | Spiro OK | 2,230 | $42K | 20.6% | 6.5% | 13% | D |
| 4,668 | McMechen WV | 1,605 | $40K | 27.5% | 7.5% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Blountsville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Blountsville: questions
What is the median household income in Blountsville?
$48,182 (±$7,771) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blountsville?
17.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blountsville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blountsville work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Birmingham (12%, 40 mi), Cullman (8%, 16 mi), Oneonta (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Blountsville walkable?
Blountsville is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blountsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blountsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blountsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.