Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Eufaula’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D: better than 7% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #162 of 187 in Alabama.
Walkability C: more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns · #108 of 187 in Alabama.
Working residents average 23 minutes each way (Alabama 26, U.S. 26). About one in three work in Eufaula; the top destination outside it is Bakerhill (9%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Eufaula, in brief
What’s behind Eufaula’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eufaula is better than 7% of U.S. towns, #162 of 187 in Alabama. Unemployment holds Eufaula’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($47,392, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eufaula could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Half of Eufaula commutes less than 23 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 33% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 3,443 residents head out to work, 1,624 work right here, and 2,559 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 2023, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Bakerhill
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Eufaula clocks in
9% 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.
What the 4,183 jobs in Eufaula are
4,183 jobs are based in Eufaula. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Eufaula’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eufaula, 2013 → 2023: 4,685 → 4,183. 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.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alabama
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eufaula workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,626 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Most trips from Eufaula start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eufaula is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #108 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% 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 4,970 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). 11.7% of Eufaula households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eufaula’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Eufaula compares with U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Eufaula, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Meadowbrook AL | 9,117 | $142K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 262 | Pike Road AL | 11,899 | $117K | 5.1% | 0.5% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 653 | Gardendale AL | 16,425 | $82K | 4.3% | 3.4% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,289 | Makaha HI | 10,066 | $65K | 25.0% | 10.0% | 1% | D |
| 2,290 | Moultrie GA | 14,973 | $44K | 28.0% | 7.1% | 41% | D |
| 2,291 | Eufaula AL | 12,437 | $47K | 20.4% | 5.6% | 32% | D |
| 2,292 | Toccoa GA | 9,539 | $48K | 23.9% | 8.8% | 18% | D |
| 2,293 | Martin TN | 11,060 | $43K | 26.3% | 6.4% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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.
Eufaula and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Eufaula’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eufaula workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eufaula | – | D | C | 23 min | $47,392 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Eufaula: questions
What is the median household income in Eufaula?
$47,392 (±$5,371) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eufaula?
20.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eufaula?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eufaula work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bakerhill (9%, 13 mi), Dothan (6%, 50 mi), Montgomery (6%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eufaula walkable?
Eufaula is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eufaula without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eufaula, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eufaula
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.