Fort Toulouse · Photo: Altairisfar · Public domainMost of Coosada commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% stay in Coosada for work; outside it, Montgomery is the main destination (42%, 11 miles). 190 jobs are based in Coosada; 521 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Coosada is better than 45% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Coosada: the gist
Where Coosada’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Coosada’s grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,815, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Coosada’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Coosada could be anywhere from C to B.
The towns that employ Coosada’s residents
Where Coosada clocks in
42% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
A workday in Coosada: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 512 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 181 people come in from elsewhere.
About 980 people are in Coosada on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 kinds of work in Coosada
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coosada, 2013 → 2023: 54 → 190. 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 Coosada’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes to work from Coosada
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coosada workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 416 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.
Where in the region Coosada works
About 25% 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.
Driving is how Coosada gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.7% across Alabama.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 431 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). 4.3% of Coosada households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Coosada’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coosada next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 2,145th of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 303 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 330 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,143 | Columbus Township PA | 1,540 | $73K | 5.5% | 1.8% | 3% | B− |
| 2,144 | Richland WI | 1,161 | $94K | 9.9% | 2.3% | 2% | B− |
| 2,145 | Coosada AL | 1,315 | $62K | 10.0% | 1.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,146 | Sparta Township IL | 1,022 | $69K | 7.2% | 1.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,147 | Lempster NH | 1,162 | $87K | 7.2% | 1.7% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Coosada, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Work in the towns next to Coosada
The biggest share goes to Millbrook (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Coosada’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Coosada: questions
What is the median household income in Coosada?
$61,815 (±$7,068) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coosada?
10.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coosada?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coosada work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery (42%, 11 mi), Prattville (8%, 8 mi), Wetumpka (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Coosada walkable?
Coosada is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coosada 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 Coosada, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coosada
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.