Phil Campbell has lower household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 22.9% of residents, against 15.6% across Alabama. Jobs and income earn Phil Campbell D−; getting around on foot earns it D. 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
Phil Campbell and work: the main findings
Phil Campbell is a place people come home to
There are 152 jobs based in Phil Campbell, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Phil Campbell has about 650 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% 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 ↓
Few Phil Campbell workers work from home
Only 0% 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; with 504 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Phil Campbell: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Phil Campbell is better than 3% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Phil Campbell’s grade.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Phil Campbell’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, Phil Campbell could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Phil Campbell quiets down on a workday
On a workday 490 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Phil Campbell on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
How many miles Phil Campbell commutes
About 33% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Phil Campbell
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Phil Campbell workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 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.
17% of working residents work in Russellville
Where Phil Campbell clocks in
17% 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.
Jobs in Phil Campbell: what the 152 are
152 jobs are based in Phil Campbell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Phil Campbell, 2013 → 2023: 145 → 152. 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 Phil Campbell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Phil Campbell walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Phil Campbell is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Phil Campbell 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 333 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). 6.3% of Phil Campbell households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Phil Campbell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Phil Campbell next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 151 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 162 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,939 | Richland Township MO | 1,124 | $43K | 28.7% | 1.3% | 3% | D− |
| 2,940 | Elcho WI | 1,193 | $50K | 19.3% | 2.1% | 9% | D− |
| 2,941 | Phil Campbell AL | 1,004 | $43K | 22.9% | 1.8% | 3% | D− |
| 2,942 | Cuba IL | 1,131 | $42K | 22.7% | 4.6% | 9% | D− |
| 2,943 | Estancia NM | 1,321 | $54K | 22.6% | 39.2% | 11% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Phil Campbell, 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 Phil Campbell: questions
What is the median household income in Phil Campbell?
$42,969 (±$18,374) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Phil Campbell?
22.9%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Phil Campbell?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Phil Campbell work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Russellville (17%, 11 mi), Muscle Shoals (5%, 27 mi), Florence (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Phil Campbell walkable?
Phil Campbell is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Phil Campbell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Phil Campbell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Phil Campbell
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.