Photo: Rivers A. Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Fredonia commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Alabama 9%). Fredonia has 12 jobs, against 72 working residents. Only 1% stay in Fredonia for work; outside it, LaGrange is the main destination (17%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Fredonia on a workday
On a workday 71 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in Fredonia on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
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 Fredonia’s working residents head each day
Where Fredonia clocks in
17% of workers
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 100% of Fredonia’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Fredonia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fredonia
of Fredonia workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fredonia
About 28% 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.
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 Fredonia: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fredonia?
76.3%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fredonia work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are LaGrange (17%, 15 mi), La Fayette (8%, 9 mi), Opelika (7%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fredonia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fredonia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fredonia
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.