Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Hayneville has 2.1 jobs per working resident, and 381 people come in to work
Only 7% work in Hayneville itself; outside it, Montgomery draws the most (27%, 22 miles). Hayneville has 395 jobs; 191 of its residents have a job. The trip to work takes 19 minutes on average; Alabama averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hayneville fills up on a workday
On a workday 177 residents head out to work and 14 work right here.
About 960 people are in Hayneville on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
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 daily trip into Hayneville
Where Hayneville clocks in
27% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
In Hayneville, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hayneville, 2014 → 2024: 430 → 395. 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 Hayneville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alabama
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hayneville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 225 commuters (the 6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Hayneville
About 32% 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.
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 Hayneville: questions
What is the median household income in Hayneville?
$37,723 (±$11,776) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hayneville?
37.8%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hayneville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hayneville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery (27%, 22 mi), Birmingham (4%, 94 mi), Prattville (2%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hayneville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hayneville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hayneville
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.