Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District · Photo: Cecouchman · CC BY-SA 3.0Chickasaw’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income C: better than 26% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #116 of 187 in Alabama.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns · #43 of 187 in Alabama.
Working residents average 22 minutes each way (Alabama 26, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in Chickasaw; the top destination outside it is Mobile (48%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Chickasaw, in brief
Much of Chickasaw works one town over
56% of working residents work in a town that borders Chickasaw: Mobile (48%), Saraland (6%) and Prichard (2%). Next door ↓
Fewer than half of Chickasaw workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of Chickasaw’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% 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.
What’s behind Chickasaw’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Chickasaw is better than 26% of U.S. towns, #116 of 187 in Alabama. Job access by car holds Chickasaw’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (28.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Chickasaw could be anywhere from C− to C+.
What the 873 jobs in Chickasaw are
873 jobs are based in Chickasaw. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Chickasaw’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chickasaw, 2013 → 2023: 875 → 873. 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.
Chickasaw quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,452 residents head out to work, 80 work right here, and 793 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Chickasaw on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.34 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
48% of working residents work in Mobile
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Chickasaw clocks in
48% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alabama
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chickasaw workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,363 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Chickasaw commutes less than 9 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Chickasaw start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chickasaw is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns, #43 of 187 in Alabama. Both inputs place Chickasaw 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 2,489 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). 7.5% of Chickasaw households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chickasaw’s commuters take a bus or train.
Chickasaw is 2,640th of 3,370 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Chickasaw, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 155 | Highland Lakes AL | 5,866 | $169K | 4.1% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 213 | Argo AL | 4,376 | $105K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 269 | Redland AL | 4,982 | $130K | 1.4% | 2.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,638 | Marlow OK | 4,514 | $57K | 21.8% | 3.0% | 14% | C |
| 2,639 | Bloomfield Township IN | 5,883 | $62K | 13.6% | 6.2% | 19% | C |
| 2,640 | Chickasaw AL | 6,166 | $47K | 28.0% | 4.6% | 3% | C |
| 2,641 | Williams CA | 5,529 | $91K | 9.3% | 17.2% | 18% | C |
| 2,642 | Gladewater TX | 6,306 | $59K | 22.5% | 5.0% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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.
56% of Chickasaw works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Mobile (48%). Darker towns draw more of Chickasaw’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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 Chickasaw: questions
What is the median household income in Chickasaw?
$46,559 (±$5,810) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chickasaw?
28.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chickasaw?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chickasaw work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mobile (48%, 7 mi), Saraland (6%, 6 mi), Daphne (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chickasaw walkable?
Chickasaw is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chickasaw without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chickasaw, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chickasaw
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.