Household incomes in Creola trail those of 64% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 2% of workers, against 9% across Alabama. Poverty touches 18.3% of residents; Alabama has 15.6%. Jobs and income earn Creola C; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Creola stands out on work
Creola and Mobile trade workers both ways
Mobile is the top workplace for Creola residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Creola come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Creola makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Creola are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Creola residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 773 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Creola’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Creola is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Creola’s grade up (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Creola’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, Creola could be anywhere from C− to B−.
36% of working residents work in Mobile
Where Creola clocks in
36% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 36% of the jobs in Creola
641 jobs are based in Creola.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Creola, 2014 → 2024: 676 → 641. 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 Creola’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Creola: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 760 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 628 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Time on the road from Creola: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Creola workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 715 commuters (the 2% 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 Creola, by distance
About 15% 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.
Driving is how Creola gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Creola is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 728 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). 2.0% of Creola households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Creola’s commuters take a bus or train.
Creola next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700: 3,405th of 5,509 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 398 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 452 | Trinity AL | 2,638 | $101K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,403 | East Bronson FL | 2,649 | $52K | 30.7% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,404 | Sterling GA | 2,091 | $86K | 15.4% | 5.9% | 1% | C |
| 3,405 | Creola AL | 1,963 | $67K | 18.3% | 2.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,406 | Jean Lafitte LA | 1,858 | $64K | 13.1% | 16.1% | 6% | C |
| 3,407 | Glenwood MN | 2,631 | $42K | 18.4% | 0.0% | 37% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Creola, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Work next door: 11% of Creola’s workers
The biggest share goes to Saraland (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Creola’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 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 Creola: questions
What is the median household income in Creola?
$66,607 (±$11,679) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Creola?
18.3%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Creola?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Creola work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mobile (36%, 15 mi), Saraland (7%, 6 mi), Prichard (2%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Creola walkable?
Creola is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Creola without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Creola, from the people who make the trip.
More of Creola
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. 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.