Photo: The original uploader was Mld74 at English Wikipedia. · Public domainUnemployment in Oneonta (1.8%) is lower than in 87% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Oneonta is better than 38% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in five work in Oneonta; the top destination outside it is Birmingham (16%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Oneonta stands out on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Oneonta
Unemployment holds Oneonta’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($53,980, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Oneonta could be anywhere from C− to B.
Short hops and long hauls from Oneonta
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.
Oneonta by day and by night
On a workday 2,108 residents head out to work, 522 work right here, and 3,247 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Oneonta on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 per resident).
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 Oneonta goes to work
Where Oneonta clocks in
16% of workers
3% 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.
Inside Oneonta’s 3,769 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oneonta, 2013 → 2023: 3,636 → 3,769. 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 Oneonta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Oneonta: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oneonta workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,318 commuters (the 6% 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 commute in Oneonta is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% 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 2,463 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). 12.4% of Oneonta households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oneonta’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,500, Oneonta ranks 2,216th of 3,227 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Meadowbrook AL | 9,117 | $142K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Highland Lakes AL | 5,866 | $169K | 4.1% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 276 | Redland AL | 4,982 | $130K | 1.4% | 2.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,214 | Champion Heights OH | 6,380 | $68K | 12.2% | 6.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,215 | Naples Manor FL | 5,501 | $65K | 23.5% | 3.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,216 | Oneonta AL | 7,022 | $54K | 18.2% | 1.8% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,217 | Allegan MI | 5,127 | $53K | 13.9% | 3.7% | 26% | C+ |
| 2,218 | Allegheny Township PA | 6,561 | $58K | 8.5% | 5.7% | 13% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,227 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Oneonta, 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 Oneonta: questions
What is the median household income in Oneonta?
$53,980 (±$11,871) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oneonta?
18.2%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oneonta?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oneonta work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Birmingham (16%, 34 mi), Huntsville (3%, 53 mi), Trussville (3%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oneonta walkable?
Oneonta is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oneonta without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oneonta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oneonta
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.