Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Edwardsville commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Edwardsville itself; outside it, Heflin draws the most (18%, 16 miles). Employers in Edwardsville report 2 jobs, and 77 of its residents work somewhere. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 9% for Alabama as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Edwardsville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 77 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Edwardsville on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 towns that employ Edwardsville’s residents
Where Edwardsville clocks in
6% 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.
What Edwardsville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edwardsville, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 2. 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 Edwardsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Alabama
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edwardsville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 94 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.
Half of Edwardsville commutes less than 26 miles
About 38% 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.
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 Edwardsville: questions
What is the median household income in Edwardsville?
$79,250 (±$30,581) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edwardsville?
5.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edwardsville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edwardsville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Heflin (18%, 16 mi), Carrollton (6%, 29 mi), Anniston (4%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Edwardsville 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 Edwardsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edwardsville
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.