Photo: Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0Maplesville has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 496 people commute in to work
0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Alabama. There are 524 jobs in Maplesville, and 278 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten work in Maplesville itself; outside it, Clanton draws the most (11%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Maplesville
Maplesville is where the jobs are
Maplesville has 524 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Maplesville makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Maplesville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Maplesville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Maplesville pay better than its residents’ jobs
65% of the jobs based in Maplesville pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 48% of the jobs Maplesville residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Maplesville. 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; with 278 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Maplesville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 250 residents head out to work and 28 work right here.
About 920 people are in Maplesville on a workday afternoon, 37% more 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.
In Maplesville, 52% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maplesville, 2013 → 2023: 506 → 524. 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 Maplesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Maplesville: where workers come from
Where Maplesville 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.
About 31 minutes to work from Maplesville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maplesville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 431 commuters (the 0% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Maplesville
About 27% 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.
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 Maplesville: questions
What is the median household income in Maplesville?
$38,155 (±$14,846) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maplesville?
22.2%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maplesville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maplesville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clanton (11%, 16 mi), Montgomery (7%, 47 mi), Birmingham (7%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Maplesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maplesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maplesville
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.