Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Flomaton trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers (Alabama 9%). 31.0% of residents live below the poverty line, where Alabama as a whole has 15.6%. Jobs and income earn Flomaton D−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Flomaton
A lot of Flomaton workers cross into Florida
24% of Flomaton workers work outside Alabama, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, Pensacola (4%), Gonzalez (3%) and Century (2%) are among the top workplaces. The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% 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 ↓
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 498 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Flomaton: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Flomaton is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Flomaton’s grade.
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Flomaton’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, Flomaton could be anywhere from D− to D.
7% of working residents work in Brewton
Where Flomaton clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
The distance from Flomaton to work
About 30% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Flomaton
On a workday 462 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 512 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 (1.10 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.
What the 548 jobs in Flomaton are
548 jobs are based in Flomaton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flomaton, 2013 → 2023: 437 → 548. 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 Flomaton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the AL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flomaton workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 523 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.
Few in Flomaton walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Flomaton is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 530 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). 3.5% of Flomaton households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Flomaton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Flomaton next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 340 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 373 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,738 | Hamilton Township MI | 1,814 | $45K | 32.0% | 21.9% | <1% | D− |
| 5,739 | Lake Kathryn FL | 1,024 | $50K | 29.5% | 3.4% | 0% | D− |
| 5,740 | Flomaton AL | 1,440 | $43K | 31.0% | 7.1% | 7% | D− |
| 5,741 | Sulligent AL | 1,812 | $35K | 33.1% | 2.1% | 12% | D− |
| 5,742 | Moore Haven FL | 1,745 | $40K | 26.3% | 12.2% | 7% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Flomaton, 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 Flomaton: questions
What is the median household income in Flomaton?
$42,708 (±$9,045) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flomaton?
31.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flomaton?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flomaton work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brewton (7%, 12 mi), Atmore (7%, 14 mi), Mobile (5%, 56 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Flomaton walkable?
Flomaton is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Flomaton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flomaton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flomaton
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.