Photo: Rivers A. Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Rock Mills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Hardly any work in Rock Mills itself; outside it, Roanoke draws the most (26%, 5 miles). 71 jobs are based in Rock Mills, and 278 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 0% of workers (Alabama 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Rock Mills: the figures worth knowing
Rock Mills and Roanoke trade workers both ways
Roanoke is the top workplace for Rock Mills residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Rock Mills come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Rock Mills is a place people come home to
There are 71 jobs based in Rock Mills, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rock Mills has about 180 people in it, 53% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 278 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Rock Mills work
Where Rock Mills clocks in
26% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Rock Mills
On a workday 277 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Rock Mills on a workday afternoon, 53% 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.
The commute from Rock Mills, by distance
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.
Factories, building and farms: 82% of the jobs in Rock Mills
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rock Mills, 2014 → 2024: 34 → 71. 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 Rock Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Rock Mills
of Rock Mills workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 91 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.
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 Rock Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Rock Mills?
$25,071 (±$12,805) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rock Mills?
34.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Rock Mills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roanoke (26%, 5 mi), LaGrange (8%, 17 mi), Opelika (5%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Rock Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rock Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rock Mills
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.