Willis G. Clark House · Photo: rossograph · CC BY-SA 4.0Mobile draws about two in five of Gulfcrest’s working residents
0% of workers have no commute at all; Alabama has 9%. Hardly any stay in Gulfcrest for work; outside it, Mobile is the main destination (44%, 24 miles). The Census job records count 54 working residents of Gulfcrest and no jobs based in it.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Gulfcrest, and who commutes in
On a workday 54 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 28 people are in Gulfcrest on a workday afternoon, 66% fewer than live here.
0.00 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 people from Gulfcrest work
Where Gulfcrest clocks in
44% 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.
Working from home in Gulfcrest
of Gulfcrest workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 38 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.
The distance from Gulfcrest to work
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.
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 Gulfcrest: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gulfcrest?
0.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Gulfcrest work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Gulfcrest without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 26% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gulfcrest, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gulfcrest
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.