Photo: Rivers Langley · CC BY-SA 4.0Lineville’s household incomes are lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D−: better than 2% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C: more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 19 minutes each way (Alabama 26, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Lineville; the top destination outside it is Ashland (23%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Lineville, in brief
Many jobs in Lineville pay little
30% of the jobs based in Lineville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Lineville 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 886 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Lineville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lineville is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Lineville’s grade.
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Lineville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lineville stays D−.
What the 635 jobs in Lineville are
635 jobs are based in Lineville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lineville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lineville, 2013 → 2023: 653 → 635. 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.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alabama
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lineville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 723 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.
Lineville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 787 residents head out to work, 99 work right here, and 536 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Lineville on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.72 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.
23% of working residents work in Ashland
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Lineville clocks in
23% of workers
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Lineville commutes less than 19 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Lineville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lineville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lineville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 769 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). 9.9% of Lineville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lineville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lineville compares with U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Lineville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 77 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 415 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,080 | Pirtleville AZ | 1,939 | $49K | 30.5% | 16.4% | <1% | D− |
| 5,081 | Linden AL | 1,801 | $39K | 23.1% | 15.1% | 10% | D− |
| 5,082 | Lineville AL | 2,473 | $38K | 32.4% | 4.7% | 11% | D− |
| 5,083 | Harlan KY | 1,822 | $32K | 33.1% | 12.0% | 17% | D− |
| 5,084 | Ruleville MS | 2,278 | $33K | 33.9% | 19.9% | 17% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | 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.
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 Lineville: questions
What is the median household income in Lineville?
$38,302 (±$12,099) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lineville?
32.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lineville?
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 Lineville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashland (23%, 6 mi), Anniston (5%, 25 mi), Oxford (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lineville walkable?
Lineville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lineville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lineville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lineville
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.