Photo: DwayneP · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Eutaw earn less than in almost any other U.S. town
The two grades for Eutaw are C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Measured by household income, Eutaw is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. 40.1% of residents live below the poverty line, where Alabama as a whole has 15.6%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Eutaw: the gist
Eutaw’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Eutaw is Tuscaloosa, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (127) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Eutaw makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Eutaw are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Eutaw residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
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; with 983 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Eutaw’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eutaw is better than 17% of U.S. towns, #143 of 187 in Alabama. Unemployment holds Eutaw’s grade up (2.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($27,422, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eutaw could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Half of Eutaw commutes less than 33 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.
Making and building: 40% of jobs based in Eutaw
1,224 jobs are based in Eutaw.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eutaw, 2013 → 2023: 1,420 → 1,224. 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 Eutaw’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Eutaw
On a workday 762 residents head out to work, 221 work right here, and 1,003 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 (1.25 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.
13% of working residents work in Tuscaloosa
Where Eutaw clocks in
5% 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.
From Eutaw, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eutaw workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 925 commuters (the 8% 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.
For most of Eutaw, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eutaw is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns, #39 of 187 in Alabama. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,008 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). 17.8% of Eutaw households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eutaw’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,278 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,600, Eutaw comes 4,233rd on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 266 | Emerald Mountain AL | 3,535 | $123K | 2.2% | 1.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,231 | East St. Clair Township PA | 2,922 | $42K | 17.6% | 4.1% | 8% | C− |
| 4,232 | Nambe NM | 2,035 | $59K | 15.2% | 9.3% | 7% | C− |
| 4,233 | Eutaw AL | 2,640 | $27K | 40.1% | 2.2% | 22% | C− |
| 4,234 | Cloverdale IN | 2,174 | $42K | 14.9% | 5.2% | 7% | C− |
| 4,235 | Raymond WA | 3,235 | $49K | 13.8% | 3.6% | 16% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,278 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Eutaw, 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 Eutaw: questions
What is the median household income in Eutaw?
$27,422 (±$6,621) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eutaw?
40.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eutaw?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eutaw work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tuscaloosa (13%, 34 mi), Montgomery (5%, 101 mi), Northport (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eutaw walkable?
Eutaw is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eutaw without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eutaw, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eutaw
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.