With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Morrison Crossroads works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Morrison Crossroads for work; outside it, Carrollton is the main destination (13%, 26 miles). Employers in Morrison Crossroads report 15 jobs, against 71 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 9% across Alabama.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Morrison Crossroads for work, and who comes in
On a workday 71 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 95 people are in Morrison Crossroads on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 places Morrison Crossroads commutes to
Where Morrison Crossroads clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
What Morrison Crossroads’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morrison Crossroads, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 15. 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 Morrison Crossroads’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 40 minutes in Morrison Crossroads
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morrison Crossroads workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 73 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.
How far Morrison Crossroads’ workers travel
About 41% 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 Morrison Crossroads: questions
What is the poverty rate in Morrison Crossroads?
17.9%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morrison Crossroads?
40 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morrison Crossroads work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carrollton (13%, 26 mi), Ashland (11%, 22 mi), Roanoke (7%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Morrison Crossroads 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 Morrison Crossroads, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morrison Crossroads
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.