Tannehill Furnace · Photo: Dystopos · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Lake View works elsewhere
Employers in Lake View report 51 jobs, against 1,068 working residents. For jobs and income Lake View is better than 84% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C+). Household incomes here are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lake View
Lake View is a place people come home to
There are 51 jobs based in Lake View, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lake View has about 3,000 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Lake View workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Lake View’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Lake View is Tuscaloosa, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (146) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
The figures behind Lake View’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lake View could be anywhere from B− to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Lake View
On a workday 1,066 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 49 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Lake View on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
How long Lake View spends getting to work: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake View workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,824 commuters (the 12% 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 Lake View goes to work
About 15% 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.
14% of working residents work in Tuscaloosa
Where Lake View clocks in
14% of workers
8% 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.
Goods jobs make up 31% of work in Lake View
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake View, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 51. 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 Lake View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Lake View walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,071 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). 0.0% of Lake View households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lake View’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lake View ranks: 635th of 4,177 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 183 | Priceville AL | 3,952 | $117K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 219 | Argo AL | 4,376 | $105K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 633 | Berlin MA | 3,486 | $121K | 5.0% | 4.5% | 5% | A− |
| 634 | Pohatcong Township NJ | 3,578 | $104K | 6.0% | 2.9% | 3% | A− |
| 635 | Lake View AL | 3,969 | $101K | 4.2% | 3.2% | <1% | A− |
| 636 | Marlborough Township PA | 3,563 | $108K | 5.2% | 4.4% | 4% | A− |
| 637 | North El Monte CA | 4,086 | $99K | 8.0% | 3.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,177 | 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 Lake View, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Lake View and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to McCalla (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lake View’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Lake View: questions
What is the median household income in Lake View?
$101,487 (±$10,334) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake View?
4.2%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake View?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake View work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tuscaloosa (14%, 23 mi), Bessemer (14%, 12 mi), Birmingham (8%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lake View walkable?
Lake View is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake View without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake View
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.