Photo: Shannon from New York · CC BY-SA 2.0Henagar has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
For jobs and income Henagar is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (C−). Employers in Henagar report 415 jobs; 879 of its residents have a job. Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Henagar: the gist
Why Henagar gets the Jobs & income grade it does
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Henagar’s grade.
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: Henagar’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Henagar could be anywhere from D− to C−.
28% of working residents work in Fort Payne
Where Henagar clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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.
Henagar by day and by night
On a workday 833 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 369 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Henagar on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Goods, not services: 34% of the jobs in Henagar
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Henagar, 2013 → 2023: 469 → 415. 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 Henagar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes to work from Henagar
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Henagar workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 757 commuters (the 11% 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 Henagar
About 20% 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.
The commute in Henagar is mostly behind the wheel
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 853 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). 5.7% of Henagar households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Henagar’s commuters take a bus or train.
Henagar and other U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 395 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,675 | Parsons TN | 2,162 | $36K | 25.3% | 7.3% | 24% | D− |
| 4,676 | Andover Township OH | 2,496 | $57K | 26.0% | 10.2% | 14% | D− |
| 4,677 | Henagar AL | 2,361 | $49K | 22.4% | 9.0% | 5% | D− |
| 4,678 | Albion IL | 1,843 | $57K | 27.8% | 10.2% | 33% | D− |
| 4,679 | Humboldt KS | 1,807 | $48K | 24.0% | 19.0% | 19% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Henagar, 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 Henagar: questions
What is the median household income in Henagar?
$49,315 (±$12,774) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Henagar?
22.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Henagar?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Henagar work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Payne (28%, 12 mi), Rainsville (7%, 11 mi), Scottsboro (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Henagar walkable?
Henagar is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Henagar 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 Henagar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Henagar
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.