Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Households in Falkville have lower incomes than those in 91% of U.S. towns
Falkville grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Below the poverty line: 14.9% of residents (Alabama 15.6%). For 1% of workers, the job is at home, against 9% across Alabama.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Falkville, in brief
Falkville is where the jobs are
Falkville has 917 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,600 people are in town, 41% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Falkville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Falkville is Huntsville, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (80) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Falkville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Falkville went from 610 in 2013 to 917 in 2023, +50%. 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 453 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Falkville
On income, poverty and job access, Falkville is better than 24% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Falkville’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($46,888, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Falkville’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, Falkville could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Falkville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 437 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 901 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Falkville on a workday afternoon, 41% more than live here.
2.0 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where in the region Falkville works
About 16% 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: 31% of jobs based in Falkville
917 jobs are based in Falkville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Falkville, 2013 → 2023: 610 → 917. 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 Falkville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Falkville
Where Falkville clocks in
18% of workers
15% of workers
9% 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.
Getting to work from Falkville takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Falkville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 650 commuters (the 1% 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.
Falkville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Falkville is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% 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 655 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). 5.4% of Falkville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Falkville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Falkville next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,364th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | 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% | 2% | 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% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Middlebury Township OH | 1,437 | $66K | 16.9% | 0.0% | 4% | C− |
| 2,363 | Richland Township OH | 1,217 | $50K | 5.6% | 4.5% | 3% | C− |
| 2,364 | Falkville AL | 1,121 | $47K | 14.9% | 1.9% | 4% | C− |
| 2,365 | Washington KS | 1,063 | $58K | 7.1% | 1.8% | 24% | C− |
| 2,366 | Pierz MN | 1,450 | $53K | 10.0% | 1.6% | 17% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Falkville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
How Falkville compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Hartselle (9%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Falkville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Falkville: questions
What is the median household income in Falkville?
$46,888 (±$5,442) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Falkville?
14.9%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Falkville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Falkville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Huntsville (18%, 26 mi), Decatur (15%, 14 mi), Hartselle (9%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Falkville walkable?
Falkville is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Falkville 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 Falkville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Falkville
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.