Photo: derivative work, Enterprise Hospital.jpg, Coffee County AL, Courthouse.jpg, Enterprise Alabama Water Tower.jpg, Palm Tree Lined Road.jpg: Skuzbucket Boll weevil monument.jpg: United States Department of Agriculture · CC BY-SA 4.0More people are out of work in Enterprise (5.4%) than in 67% of U.S. towns
About one in three stay in Enterprise for work; outside it, Dothan is the main destination (11%, 27 miles). Enterprise grades C for jobs and income and C for walkability. Working residents average 20 minutes each way, next to 26 for Alabama and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Enterprise: the figures worth knowing
Enterprise’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Enterprise is Dothan, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (1,071) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Enterprise are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Alabama. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Alabama worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Enterprise earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Enterprise is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #104 of 187 in Alabama. Household income holds Enterprise’s grade up ($73,125, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Enterprise could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Half of Enterprise commutes less than 11 miles
About 24% 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.
About 20 minutes each way for Enterprise’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enterprise workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,059 commuters (the 5% 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 daily flow of workers through Enterprise
On a workday 6,681 residents head out to work, 3,034 work right here, and 6,557 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 (0.99 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.
Where the trip to work from Enterprise ends
Where Enterprise clocks in
11% of workers
3% 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.
Jobs in Enterprise: what the 9,591 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enterprise, 2013 → 2023: 9,003 → 9,591. 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 Enterprise’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Enterprise, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Enterprise is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns, #91 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of 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 12,679 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). 4.9% of Enterprise households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Enterprise’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,334 U.S. towns of 22,000 to 42,000, Enterprise comes 1,132nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Trussville AL | 27,273 | $123K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Helena AL | 23,388 | $115K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 227 | Vestavia Hills AL | 38,306 | $134K | 10.0% | 1.9% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,130 | Henry Township IN | 22,005 | $58K | 17.0% | 4.4% | 33% | C |
| 1,131 | Elizabethtown KY | 35,448 | $61K | 17.0% | 5.2% | 36% | C |
| 1,132 | Enterprise AL | 31,211 | $73K | 16.5% | 5.4% | 31% | C |
| 1,133 | Opelika AL | 35,765 | $65K | 16.0% | 5.6% | 36% | C |
| 1,134 | Shelbyville TN | 26,146 | $55K | 20.7% | 3.8% | 34% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 1,334 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 Enterprise, 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 Enterprise: questions
What is the median household income in Enterprise?
$73,125 (±$6,158) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enterprise?
16.5%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enterprise?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Enterprise work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dothan (11%, 27 mi), Montgomery (3%, 75 mi), Ozark (3%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Enterprise walkable?
Enterprise is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enterprise 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 Enterprise, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enterprise
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.