Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Brundidge have lower incomes than those in 97% of U.S. towns
Brundidge grades D− for jobs and income and D for walkability. 40.7% of residents are in poverty, where Alabama as a whole has 15.6%. About one in ten work in Brundidge; the top destination outside it is Troy (27%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Brundidge at work: what stands out
Stores, warehouses and trucking
72% of the jobs in Brundidge are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Brundidge is where the jobs are
Brundidge has 1,495 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Brundidge workers earn over $40,000 a year
42% of Brundidge’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 768 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Brundidge earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Brundidge is better than 2% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Brundidge’s grade up (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Brundidge’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brundidge stays D−.
Jobs in Brundidge: what the 1,495 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brundidge, 2013 → 2023: 1,124 → 1,495. 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 Brundidge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Brundidge, and who commutes in
On a workday 696 residents head out to work, 72 work right here, and 1,423 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Brundidge on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
1.9 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.
The daily trip into Brundidge
Where Brundidge clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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 trip to work from Brundidge: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brundidge workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 657 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Brundidge
About 27% 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.
Brundidge is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brundidge is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Brundidge 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 677 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). 12.5% of Brundidge households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Brundidge’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Brundidge compares with U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 422 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 479 | Trinity AL | 2,638 | $101K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,567 | Kaibab Estates West AZ | 1,403 | $39K | 16.5% | 2.7% | 0% | D− |
| 5,568 | McIntosh NM | 1,943 | $57K | 28.7% | 5.8% | 6% | D− |
| 5,569 | Brundidge AL | 2,061 | $38K | 40.7% | 5.8% | 9% | D− |
| 5,570 | Marion AL | 2,602 | $36K | 20.1% | 10.1% | 27% | D− |
| 5,571 | Carrabelle FL | 2,572 | $50K | 21.6% | 8.2% | 12% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Brundidge, 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 Brundidge: questions
What is the median household income in Brundidge?
$38,188 (±$5,617) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brundidge?
40.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brundidge?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brundidge work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Troy (27%, 10 mi), Montgomery (8%, 51 mi), Dothan (6%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brundidge walkable?
Brundidge is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brundidge without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brundidge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brundidge
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.