Huntsville draws more than half of Hazel Green’s working residents
Only 2% stay in Hazel Green for work; outside it, Huntsville is the main destination (57%, 17 miles). Jobs and income earn Hazel Green B−; getting around on foot earns it C−. The average commute, 26 minutes each way, matches the Alabama norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hazel Green: the figures worth knowing
More than half of Hazel Green works in Huntsville
1,009 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Huntsville, 17 miles away. That’s 29 times as many as work in Hazel Green itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Hazel Green
59% of Hazel Green residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 32% of the jobs based in Hazel Green pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Hazel Green has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hazel Green went from 605 in 2013 to 983 in 2023, +62%. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Hazel Green are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
35% of the jobs based in Hazel Green are held by workers 29 or younger, against 25% of Hazel Green’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Hazel Green’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hazel Green is better than 55% of U.S. towns, #59 of 187 in Alabama. Household income holds Hazel Green’s grade up ($86,271, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hazel Green could be anywhere from C− to A.
Where people from Hazel Green work
Where Hazel Green clocks in
57% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Hazel Green
983 jobs are based in Hazel Green.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hazel Green, 2013 → 2023: 605 → 983. 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 Hazel Green’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Hazel Green, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,724 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 950 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Hazel Green on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.56 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.
From Hazel Green, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hazel Green workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,574 commuters (the 14% 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.
How far it is to work from Hazel Green
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.
Hazel Green is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hazel Green is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #117 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below 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 1,824 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Hazel Green households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hazel Green’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hazel Green is 1,916th of 4,084 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,300 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 175 | Priceville AL | 3,952 | $117K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 211 | Argo AL | 4,376 | $105K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,914 | York NY | 3,163 | $80K | 15.0% | 1.6% | 9% | B− |
| 1,915 | Jefferson Township OH | 5,246 | $57K | 7.2% | 2.0% | 19% | B− |
| 1,916 | Hazel Green AL | 3,940 | $86K | 10.4% | 4.7% | 2% | B− |
| 1,917 | Butte AK | 4,085 | $101K | 6.7% | 3.6% | — | B− |
| 1,918 | Amesti CA | 2,818 | $109K | 13.4% | 4.8% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,084 | 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 Hazel Green, 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 Hazel Green: questions
What is the median household income in Hazel Green?
$86,271 (±$13,591) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hazel Green?
10.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hazel Green?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hazel Green work?
2% work in town.
Is Hazel Green walkable?
Hazel Green is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hazel Green without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hazel Green, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hazel Green
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.