Allen House · Photo: Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Bon Secour commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Bon Secour itself; outside it, Foley draws the most (21%, 6 miles). Employers in Bon Secour report 208 jobs, against 694 working residents. Bon Secour grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Bon Secour, in brief
Bon Secour and Foley trade workers both ways
Foley is the top workplace for Bon Secour residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Bon Secour come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Bon Secour is a place people come home to
There are 208 jobs based in Bon Secour, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Bon Secour workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical 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; with 694 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Bon Secour’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bon Secour is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #134 of 187 in Alabama. Unemployment holds Bon Secour’s grade up (5.0%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bon Secour could be anywhere from D− to A−.
Where Bon Secour’s working residents head each day
Where Bon Secour clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Bon Secour
On a workday 690 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 204 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Bon Secour on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 33 minutes to work from Bon Secour
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bon Secour workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,690 commuters (the 2% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 40% of the jobs in Bon Secour
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bon Secour, 2013 → 2023: 208 → 208. 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 Bon Secour’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Bon Secour
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.
For most of Bon Secour, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bon Secour is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns, #179 of 187 in Alabama. Both inputs place Bon Secour 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 1,721 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). 0.0% of Bon Secour households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bon Secour’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bon Secour is 3,680th among 4,703 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 248 | Emerald Mountain AL | 3,535 | $123K | 2.2% | 1.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,678 | Tahoka TX | 2,533 | $62K | 18.3% | 5.9% | 20% | C− |
| 3,679 | Browning Township IL | 2,353 | $53K | 14.1% | 2.5% | 5% | C− |
| 3,680 | Bon Secour AL | 2,789 | $61K | 17.7% | 5.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,681 | Lyons KS | 3,488 | $63K | 9.1% | 8.0% | 34% | C− |
| 3,682 | Rogue River OR | 2,293 | $55K | 12.6% | 10.2% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Bon Secour, 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 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 Bon Secour: questions
What is the median household income in Bon Secour?
$61,497 (±$26,149) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bon Secour?
17.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bon Secour?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bon Secour work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Foley (21%, 6 mi), Gulf Shores (13%, 3 mi), Orange Beach (11%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bon Secour walkable?
Bon Secour is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bon Secour without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bon Secour, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bon Secour
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.