Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0There are 1.9 jobs in Moulton for every working resident, and 2,206 people commute in
Employers in Moulton report 2,374 jobs for 1,244 working residents. Jobs and income earn Moulton C; getting around on foot earns it C+. Measured by household income, Moulton is behind 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Moulton: the gist
Moulton is where the jobs are
Moulton has 2,374 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Moulton
58% of Moulton residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Moulton pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 86% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Few Moulton workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 9% across Alabama. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Moulton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Moulton is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #111 of 187 in Alabama. Unemployment holds Moulton’s grade up (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($57,813, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Moulton could be anywhere from D to B+.
A workday in Moulton: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,076 residents head out to work and 168 work right here.
About 4,600 people are in Moulton on a workday afternoon, 33% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The kinds of work in Moulton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moulton, 2013 → 2023: 2,322 → 2,374. 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 Moulton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Moulton takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moulton workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,274 commuters (the 3% 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.
The daily trip into Moulton
Where Moulton clocks in
20% of workers
12% of workers
3% 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.
How far Moulton’s workers travel
About 18% 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 Moulton, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moulton is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #71 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.7% across Alabama.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,318 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). 8.9% of Moulton households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moulton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Moulton places 3,221st of 4,402 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 180 | Priceville AL | 3,952 | $117K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,219 | Tippecanoe Township IN | 2,472 | $61K | 14.5% | 4.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,220 | Penrose CO | 4,087 | $88K | 11.3% | 7.1% | 7% | C |
| 3,221 | Moulton AL | 3,436 | $58K | 13.0% | 4.6% | 14% | C |
| 3,222 | Etna PA | 3,269 | $54K | 17.8% | 8.5% | 5% | C |
| 3,223 | Gregg Township IN | 3,046 | $68K | 16.4% | 8.4% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,402 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Moulton, 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 Moulton: questions
What is the median household income in Moulton?
$57,813 (±$18,761) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moulton?
13.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moulton?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moulton work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Decatur (20%, 18 mi), Huntsville (12%, 37 mi), Florence (3%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moulton walkable?
Moulton is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moulton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moulton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moulton
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.