Photo: Calvin Beale · Public domainHouseholds in Double Springs earn less than those in 90% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Double Springs itself; outside it, Jasper draws the most (7%, 22 miles). Below the poverty line: 28.7% of residents (Alabama 15.6%). For jobs and income Double Springs is better than 2% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Double Springs at work: what stands out
Double Springs fills up on a workday
Double Springs has 1,660 jobs, 4.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, more than double the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Double Springs makes and builds things
59% of the jobs based in Double Springs are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Double Springs residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Double Springs has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Double Springs went from 1,020 in 2014 to 1,660 in 2024, +63%. 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 395 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Double Springs’ grade explained
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Double Springs’ grade.
Unemployment (9.4%) is left out: Double Springs’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, Double Springs could be anywhere from D− to D.
Double Springs by day and by night
On a workday 317 residents head out to work, 78 work right here, and 1,582 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Double Springs on a workday afternoon, 114% more than live here.
4.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Making and building: 59% of jobs based in Double Springs
1,660 jobs are based in Double Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Double Springs, 2014 → 2024: 1,020 → 1,660. 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 Double Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Double Springs
Where Double Springs clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
The trip to work from Double Springs: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Double Springs workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 360 commuters (the 6% 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 distance from Double Springs to work
About 32% 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.
Few in Double Springs walk, bike or ride to work
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 384 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). 5.2% of Double Springs households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Double Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, and where Double Springs sits
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 196 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 210 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,628 | Iyanbito NM | 1,233 | $53K | 32.2% | 15.4% | 4% | D− |
| 3,629 | Shell Valley ND | 1,243 | $47K | 21.5% | 9.8% | 2% | D− |
| 3,630 | Double Springs AL | 1,107 | $48K | 28.7% | 9.4% | 20% | D− |
| 3,631 | Rochelle GA | 1,146 | $42K | 23.8% | 4.3% | 7% | D− |
| 3,632 | Centreville MS | 1,091 | $42K | 24.2% | 0.3% | 8% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Double Springs, 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 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 Double Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Double Springs?
$47,768 (±$21,941) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Double Springs?
28.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Double Springs?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Double Springs work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jasper (7%, 22 mi), Haleyville (5%, 14 mi), Huntsville (4%, 56 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Double Springs walkable?
Double Springs is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Double Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Double Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Double Springs
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.