Households in Frisco City have lower incomes than those in 98% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 26.8% of residents, where Alabama as a whole has 15.6%. Jobs and income earn Frisco City D−; getting around on foot earns it C. Only 2% stay in Frisco City for work; outside it, Monroeville is the main destination (18%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Frisco City, in a few figures
Frisco City and Monroeville trade workers both ways
Monroeville is the top workplace for Frisco City residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Frisco City come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 473 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Frisco City earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Frisco City is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Frisco City’s grade.
Unemployment (21.4%) is left out: Frisco City’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Frisco City stays D−.
Where people from Frisco City work
Where Frisco City clocks in
18% of workers
5% 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.
Where in the region Frisco City works
About 41% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Frisco City on a workday afternoon
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 232 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Frisco City on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.51 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The 241 jobs based in Frisco City
241 jobs are based in Frisco City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frisco City, 2014 → 2024: 249 → 241. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Frisco City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Frisco City: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frisco City workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 359 commuters (the 9% 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.
Frisco City is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frisco City is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 396 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). 6.1% of Frisco City households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Frisco City’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Frisco City compares with U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 2% | 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% | 3% | 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% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,718 | Black Rock NM | 1,125 | $46K | 38.9% | 1.7% | 28% | D− |
| 3,719 | Taos Pueblo NM | 1,129 | $39K | 49.1% | 21.7% | 5% | D− |
| 3,720 | Frisco City AL | 1,089 | $36K | 26.8% | 21.4% | 2% | D− |
| 3,721 | Reform AL | 1,432 | $34K | 43.8% | 7.9% | 9% | D− |
| 3,722 | Clio AL | 1,202 | $29K | 38.9% | 12.5% | 2% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Frisco City, 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 2024, 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 Frisco City: questions
What is the median household income in Frisco City?
$36,023 (±$8,829) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frisco City?
26.8%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frisco City?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frisco City work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monroeville (18%, 7 mi), Mobile (5%, 68 mi), Atmore (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Frisco City walkable?
Frisco City is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frisco City without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frisco City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frisco City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.