Janney Furnace · Photo: dofftoubab · CC BY-SA 3.0Ohatchee has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Only 3% work in Ohatchee itself; outside it, Anniston draws the most (19%, 15 miles). Ohatchee has 215 jobs, against 392 working residents. The two grades for Ohatchee 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
Where Ohatchee stands out on work
Where Ohatchee’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Ohatchee is better than 43% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ohatchee’s grade.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Ohatchee’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ohatchee could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Each way, about 33 minutes from Ohatchee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ohatchee workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 470 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.
Who works in Ohatchee, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 382 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 205 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Ohatchee on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 Ohatchee goes to work
Where Ohatchee clocks in
19% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 37% of jobs based in Ohatchee
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ohatchee, 2013 → 2023: 151 → 215. 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 Ohatchee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Ohatchee
About 19% 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.
Few in Ohatchee walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ohatchee is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ohatchee near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 487 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). 2.4% of Ohatchee households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ohatchee’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Ohatchee comes 1,745th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 237 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 254 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,743 | Laketown WI | 1,047 | $83K | 7.3% | 2.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,744 | Robinhood MS | 1,298 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,745 | Ohatchee AL | 1,188 | $77K | 12.0% | 3.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,746 | Craig Beach OH | 1,004 | $72K | 17.1% | 1.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,747 | Atkinson Township IL | 1,199 | $58K | 6.1% | 7.0% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Ohatchee, 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 Ohatchee: questions
What is the median household income in Ohatchee?
$76,667 (±$14,728) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ohatchee?
12.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ohatchee?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ohatchee work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Anniston (19%, 15 mi), Gadsden (9%, 15 mi), Oxford (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ohatchee walkable?
Ohatchee is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ohatchee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ohatchee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ohatchee
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.