With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Level Plains works elsewhere
Employers in Level Plains report 109 jobs, and 506 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Level Plains is better than 42% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (D). Only 1% stay in Level Plains for work; outside it, Enterprise is the main destination (20%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Level Plains: the figures worth knowing
Level Plains and Enterprise trade workers both ways
Enterprise is the top workplace for Level Plains residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Level Plains come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Level Plains is a place people come home to
There are 109 jobs based in Level Plains, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Level Plains are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 26 across Alabama. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Alabama worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 506 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Level Plains earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Level Plains’ grade.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Level Plains’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, Level Plains could be anywhere from C− to B.
The places Level Plains commutes to
Where Level Plains clocks in
20% of workers
13% 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 and out of Level Plains on a workday
On a workday 499 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Level Plains on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
About 19 minutes each way for Level Plains’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Level Plains workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 692 commuters (the 5% 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.
Jobs in Level Plains: what the 109 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Level Plains, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 109. 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 Level Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Level Plains, by distance
About 23% 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 trips from Level Plains start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 728 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). 0.7% of Level Plains households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Level Plains’ commuters take a bus or train.
Level Plains places 2,670th of 5,656 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 382 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 501 | Vance AL | 2,332 | $95K | 7.3% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,668 | Tome NM | 1,723 | $85K | 12.2% | 13.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,669 | Fairfield Beach OH | 1,432 | $49K | 8.1% | 6.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,670 | Level Plains AL | 1,838 | $77K | 12.1% | 4.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,671 | Hudson CO | 1,621 | $81K | 18.4% | 4.1% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,672 | East Dubuque IL | 1,457 | $68K | 12.2% | 2.2% | 10% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Level Plains, 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 Level Plains: questions
What is the median household income in Level Plains?
$77,000 (±$13,591) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Level Plains?
12.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Level Plains?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Level Plains work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Enterprise (20%, 5 mi), Dothan (13%, 22 mi), Ozark (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Level Plains walkable?
Level Plains is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Level Plains without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Level Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of Level Plains
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.