Moody has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Working from home is the commute for 20% of workers; Alabama has 9%. Moody has 3,654 jobs, and 6,587 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Moody is better than 61% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Moody, in a few figures
A lot of Moody works from home
20% of Moody workers work from home, against 9% across Alabama. Time on the road ↓
28% of Moody works in Birmingham
1,833 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Birmingham, 18 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Moody itself. The commute map ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Moody
Job access by car holds Moody’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Moody could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How long Moody spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moody workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,206 commuters (the 20% 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.
28% of working residents work in Birmingham
Where Moody clocks in
28% of workers
6% 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.
Who leaves Moody for work, and who comes in
On a workday 6,274 residents head out to work, 313 work right here, and 3,341 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Moody 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.
The kinds of work in Moody
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moody, 2013 → 2023: 2,890 → 3,654. 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 Moody’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Moody
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 of Moody commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,491 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). 3.0% of Moody households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moody’s commuters take a bus or train.
Moody places 1,294th of 2,526 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 133 | Meadowbrook AL | 9,117 | $142K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 277 | Pike Road AL | 11,899 | $117K | 5.1% | 0.5% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 492 | Chelsea AL | 17,716 | $115K | 2.7% | 3.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,292 | Middletown RI | 16,502 | $102K | 8.5% | 6.0% | 26% | B |
| 1,293 | Lawrenceburg KY | 12,329 | $66K | 12.0% | 1.8% | 15% | B |
| 1,294 | Moody AL | 13,559 | $87K | 7.7% | 5.7% | 5% | B |
| 1,295 | Clayton NJ | 9,041 | $90K | 8.0% | 7.2% | 4% | B |
| 1,296 | Groves TX | 16,907 | $74K | 8.0% | 4.1% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Moody, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Next door to Moody
The biggest share goes to Trussville (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Moody workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moody | – | B | C | 27 min | $86,627 |
| Odenville | under 3% | B− | D | 33 min | $70,296 |
| Trussville | 4% | A+ | C | 27 min | $123,275 |
| Leeds | 4% | B | C | 27 min | $69,737 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Moody’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 Moody: questions
What is the median household income in Moody?
$86,627 (±$10,305) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moody?
7.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moody?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moody work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Birmingham (28%, 18 mi), Hoover (6%, 24 mi), Leeds (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moody walkable?
Moody is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moody without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moody, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moody
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.