Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Crossville are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 21.1% of residents, against 15.6% across Alabama. Jobs and income earn Crossville D; getting around on foot earns it D. 1% of workers have no commute at all, where Alabama as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Crossville: the figures worth knowing
Where Crossville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Crossville is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Crossville’s grade up (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($49,100, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Crossville’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, Crossville could be anywhere from D to C−.
Making and building: 41% of jobs based in Crossville
733 jobs are based in Crossville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crossville, 2013 → 2023: 686 → 733. 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 Crossville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Crossville by day and by night
On a workday 659 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 680 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 (1.03 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
20% of working residents work in Albertville
Where Crossville clocks in
20% of workers
6% 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.
About 25 minutes to work from Crossville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crossville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 813 commuters (the 1% 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.
Miles to work from Crossville
About 19% 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.
For most of Crossville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crossville is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. 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 822 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). 2.7% of Crossville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crossville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crossville places 4,709th of 5,656 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 382 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 501 | Vance AL | 2,332 | $95K | 7.3% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,707 | Troy Township PA | 1,572 | $63K | 18.2% | 3.3% | 11% | D |
| 4,708 | Pierre Part LA | 2,308 | $60K | 18.8% | 8.7% | 11% | D |
| 4,709 | Crossville AL | 1,851 | $49K | 21.1% | 3.8% | 7% | D |
| 4,710 | Zolfo Springs FL | 1,754 | $61K | 32.0% | 5.0% | 3% | D |
| 4,711 | Oberlin KS | 1,606 | $52K | 11.5% | 2.5% | 37% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Crossville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
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 Crossville: questions
What is the median household income in Crossville?
$49,100 (±$6,452) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crossville?
21.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crossville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crossville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albertville (20%, 12 mi), Boaz (6%, 10 mi), Gadsden (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crossville walkable?
Crossville is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crossville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crossville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crossville
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.