Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Grant top those of 69% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 8.6% of residents (Alabama 15.6%). Jobs and income earn Grant B−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 4% stay in Grant for work; outside it, Huntsville is the main destination (26%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Grant apart on work
Grant’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Grant is Huntsville, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 26% of working residents (118) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Grant than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Grant fell from 554 in 2013 to 322 in 2023, −42%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Grant workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Why Grant gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Grant is better than 53% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Grant’s grade up ($91,477, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Grant’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Grant could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Where in the region Grant works
About 21% 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 Grant’s employers do
322 jobs are based in Grant.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grant, 2013 → 2023: 554 → 322. 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 Grant’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Grant: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grant workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 556 commuters (the 3% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Grant
On a workday 437 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 306 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Grant on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.71 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Grant goes to work
Where Grant clocks in
26% of workers
12% of workers
8% 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.
Grant is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grant is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Grant near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 574 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 Grant households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grant’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Grant ranks 1,148th 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 1,146 | Odell Township IL | 1,170 | $87K | 8.1% | 2.0% | 3% | B− |
| 1,147 | Honey Creek Township IN | 1,227 | $77K | 5.7% | 3.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,148 | Grant AL | 1,078 | $91K | 8.6% | 2.2% | 4% | B− |
| 1,149 | Roxana IL | 1,395 | $65K | 12.4% | 4.4% | 6% | B− |
| 1,150 | Newark TX | 1,307 | $77K | 19.5% | 4.8% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Grant, 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 Grant: questions
What is the median household income in Grant?
$91,477 (±$29,943) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grant?
8.6%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grant?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grant work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Huntsville (26%, 27 mi), Scottsboro (12%, 15 mi), Guntersville (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grant walkable?
Grant is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grant without a car?
0% 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 Grant, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grant
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.