Photo: The original uploader was Robivy64 at English Wikipedia. · Public domainAbout two in five of Prattville’s working residents commute to Montgomery
Working residents average 24 minutes each way; Alabama averages 26, the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Prattville B+; getting around on foot earns it C. About one in five work in Prattville; the top destination outside it is Montgomery (42%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Prattville at work: what stands out
Prattville trades workers with the towns around it
Prattville has about as many jobs (12,220) as working residents (14,379), but they are mostly different people: 11,689 residents leave for work each day while 9,530 people come in. Only 22% of the jobs in Prattville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
42% of Prattville works in Montgomery
5,986 working residents, 42%, have their main job in Montgomery, 13 miles away. That’s twice as many as work in Prattville itself. The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Prattville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 24% of Prattville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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.
The four measures behind Prattville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Prattville is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #40 of 187 in Alabama. Unemployment holds Prattville’s grade up (1.8%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Prattville could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who leaves Prattville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 11,689 residents head out to work, 2,690 work right here, and 9,530 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.85 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 Prattville’s working residents head each day
Where Prattville clocks in
42% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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 Prattville’s 12,220 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prattville, 2013 → 2023: 10,210 → 12,220. 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 Prattville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Prattville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prattville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17,321 commuters (the 8% 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.
Miles to work from Prattville
About 24% 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.
The commute in Prattville is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Prattville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #111 of 187 in Alabama. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% 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 18,735 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). 3.1% of Prattville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Prattville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,101 U.S. towns of 28,000 to 55,000, Prattville comes 531st on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
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| 179 | Vestavia Hills AL | 38,306 | $134K | 10.0% | 1.9% | 9% | A |
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| 267 | Homewood AL | 28,118 | $94K | 8.9% | 2.3% | 15% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 330 | Alabaster AL | 34,748 | $91K | 7.1% | 2.5% | 12% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 529 | Westfield MA | 40,546 | $88K | 10.7% | 3.0% | 23% | B+ |
| 530 | Waipahu HI | 40,482 | $104K | 12.0% | 4.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 531 | Prattville AL | 40,582 | $81K | 10.7% | 1.8% | 19% | B+ |
| 532 | Sun City Center FL | 33,548 | $74K | 8.3% | 2.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 533 | Beverly Hills CA | 30,764 | $133K | 9.6% | 8.3% | 14% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,101 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Prattville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
How Prattville compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Millbrook (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Prattville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prattville | – | B+ | C | 24 min | $81,337 |
| Millbrook | 2% | B− | C− | 25 min | $70,313 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Prattville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Prattville: questions
What is the median household income in Prattville?
$81,337 (±$7,304) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prattville?
10.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prattville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prattville work?
19% work in town.
Is Prattville walkable?
Prattville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Prattville without a car?
<1% 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 Prattville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prattville
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.