Verbena · Photo: Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0Marbury has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 2% stay in Marbury for work; outside it, Montgomery is the main destination (38%, 25 miles). Employers in Marbury report 69 jobs for 533 working residents. The two grades for Marbury are C for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Marbury: the gist
Marbury is a place people come home to
There are 69 jobs based in Marbury, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Marbury has about 1,100 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
38% of Marbury works in Montgomery
203 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Montgomery, 25 miles away. That’s 19 times as many as work in Marbury itself. The commute map ↓
Marbury workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical 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 533 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Marbury’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Marbury is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Marbury’s grade up ($83,558, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Marbury’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Marbury could be anywhere from D to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Marbury
On a workday 524 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 60 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Marbury on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Where the trip to work from Marbury ends
Where Marbury clocks in
38% of workers
15% 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 33 minutes to work from Marbury
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marbury workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 704 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.
Marbury makes things: 55% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marbury, 2013 → 2023: 98 → 69. 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 Marbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Marbury
About 21% 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.
In Marbury, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marbury is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 741 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 Marbury households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marbury’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Marbury comes 3,180th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 377 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 408 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,178 | Payson Township IL | 1,695 | $62K | 8.8% | 2.7% | 4% | C |
| 3,179 | Bloominggrove Township OH | 1,297 | $61K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,180 | Marbury AL | 1,570 | $84K | 13.6% | 3.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,181 | New Plymouth ID | 1,629 | $65K | 9.4% | 3.9% | 7% | C |
| 3,182 | Victory Gardens NJ | 1,596 | $63K | 26.5% | 6.7% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Marbury, 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 Marbury: questions
What is the median household income in Marbury?
$83,558 (±$22,540) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marbury?
13.6%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marbury?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marbury work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery (38%, 25 mi), Prattville (15%, 16 mi), Clanton (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marbury walkable?
Marbury is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marbury 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 Marbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marbury
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.