Household incomes in Haleyville trail those of 95% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Haleyville itself; outside it, Double Springs draws the most (7%, 14 miles). The poverty rate is 25.2%, against 15.6% across Alabama. Haleyville grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Haleyville
Haleyville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Haleyville is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #168 of 187 in Alabama. Unemployment holds Haleyville’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($42,058, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Haleyville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Commuting from Haleyville: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haleyville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,638 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.
A workday in Haleyville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,097 residents head out to work, 375 work right here, and 1,771 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,000 people are in Haleyville on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.46 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.
Commuting out of Haleyville: the destinations
Where Haleyville clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
Haleyville works in goods: 29% of its jobs
2,146 jobs are based in Haleyville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Haleyville, 2013 → 2023: 1,979 → 2,146. 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 Haleyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Haleyville
About 27% 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.
Most of Haleyville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Haleyville is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns, #40 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above 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 1,690 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). 8.6% of Haleyville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Haleyville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800, and where Haleyville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 182 | Priceville AL | 3,952 | $117K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 215 | Argo AL | 4,376 | $105K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,817 | Jackson LA | 3,904 | $38K | 32.0% | 13.1% | 3% | D |
| 3,818 | Eastland TX | 3,737 | $52K | 24.9% | 6.3% | 25% | D |
| 3,819 | Haleyville AL | 4,303 | $42K | 25.2% | 5.6% | 25% | D |
| 3,820 | Booneville AR | 3,836 | $50K | 16.7% | 10.0% | 19% | D |
| 3,821 | Anadarko OK | 5,448 | $43K | 24.5% | 6.2% | 32% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Haleyville, 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 Haleyville: questions
What is the median household income in Haleyville?
$42,058 (±$8,143) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haleyville?
25.2%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haleyville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haleyville work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Double Springs (7%, 14 mi), Huntsville (4%, 62 mi), Bear Creek (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Haleyville walkable?
Haleyville is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Haleyville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Haleyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haleyville
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.