Most of Coffeeville commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Coffeeville; the top destination outside it is Mobile (12%, 76 miles). Employers in Coffeeville report 20 jobs; 109 of its residents have a job. For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Alabama has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Coffeeville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 108 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Coffeeville on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Coffeeville’s working residents head each day
Where Coffeeville clocks in
12% of workers
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.
What Coffeeville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coffeeville, 2014 → 2024: 15 → 20. 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 Coffeeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Coffeeville spends getting to work: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coffeeville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 74 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.
The commute from Coffeeville, by distance
About 57% 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.
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 Coffeeville: questions
What is the median household income in Coffeeville?
$30,156 (±$14,434) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coffeeville?
20.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coffeeville?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coffeeville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mobile (12%, 76 mi), Grove Hill (8%, 19 mi), Thomasville (6%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Coffeeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coffeeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coffeeville
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.