Sand Rock has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 9% across Alabama. Employers in Sand Rock report 114 jobs, and 244 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% stay in Sand Rock for work; outside it, Fort Payne is the main destination (14%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Sand Rock
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 ↓
Few Sand Rock 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 244 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Sand Rock to work
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.
The daily trip from Sand Rock: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sand Rock workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 328 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.
Sand Rock on a workday afternoon
On a workday 240 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 490 people are in Sand Rock on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Where Sand Rock goes to work
Where Sand Rock clocks in
9% 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.
Most jobs in Sand Rock are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sand Rock, 2014 → 2024: 170 → 114. 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 Sand Rock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How Sand Rock compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Leesburg (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Sand Rock’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 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 Sand Rock: questions
What is the median household income in Sand Rock?
$73,333 (±$30,327) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sand Rock?
7.5%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sand Rock?
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 Sand Rock work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Payne (14%, 16 mi), Centre (11%, 8 mi), Gadsden (9%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Sand Rock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sand Rock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sand Rock
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.