Photo: Tails Wx · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Carolina commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Alabama as a whole has 9%. There are 41 jobs in Carolina; 98 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Carolina itself; outside it, Andalusia draws the most (33%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Carolina
On a workday 98 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 41 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Carolina on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
The towns that employ Carolina’s residents
Where Carolina clocks in
33% 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.
Making and building: 46% of jobs based in Carolina
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carolina, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 41. 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 Carolina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Carolina, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carolina workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 119 commuters (the 0% 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 far Carolina goes to work
About 31% 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.
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 Carolina: questions
What is the median household income in Carolina?
$60,250 (±$12,455) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carolina?
32.3%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carolina?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carolina work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Andalusia (33%, 6 mi), Dothan (6%, 66 mi), Troy (5%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Carolina without a car?
0% 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 Carolina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carolina
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.