Photo: SaveRivers · Public domainNew Site has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
A typical one-way commute from New Site lasts 31 minutes (Alabama 26, U.S. 26). 47 jobs are based in New Site; 344 of its residents have a job. Only 2% stay in New Site for work; outside it, Alexander City is the main destination (22%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in New Site: the figures worth knowing
New Site is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in New Site, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday New Site has about 480 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
New Site and Alexander City trade workers both ways
Alexander City is the top workplace for New Site residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in New Site come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 344 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who leaves New Site for work, and who comes in
On a workday 338 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 41 people come in from elsewhere.
About 480 people are in New Site on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where New Site goes to work
Where New Site clocks in
22% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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 it is to work from New Site
About 30% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Making and building: 45% of jobs based in New Site
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Site, 2014 → 2024: 30 → 47. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Site’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from New Site: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Site workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 330 commuters (the 4% 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 New Site: questions
What is the median household income in New Site?
$61,250 (±$18,647) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Site?
17.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Site?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Site work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexander City (22%, 12 mi), Montgomery (7%, 55 mi), Dadeville (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around New Site 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 New Site, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Site
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.