Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Households in Snead have lower incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
17% of workers work from home (Alabama 9%). Poverty touches 14.8% of residents, against 15.6% across Alabama. The two grades for Snead are D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Snead apart on work
Snead’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Snead is Birmingham, 47 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (42) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Snead workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 115 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Snead pay little
29% of the jobs based in Snead pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 34% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. 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; with 494 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Snead earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Snead is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Snead’s grade up (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($48,509, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Snead’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, Snead could be anywhere from D to C+.
Snead’s commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
About 41 minutes to work from Snead
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Snead workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 418 commuters (the 17% 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 389 jobs based in Snead
389 jobs are based in Snead.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Snead, 2013 → 2023: 379 → 389. 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 Snead’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Snead: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 466 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 361 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Snead on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 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.
9% of working residents work in Birmingham
Where Snead clocks in
9% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Few in Snead walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Snead is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 506 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). 9.0% of Snead households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Snead’s commuters take a bus or train.
Snead places 2,345th of 3,133 on jobs and income among 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 2,343 | Huston Township PA | 1,232 | $61K | 14.7% | 1.7% | 2% | D |
| 2,344 | Ryegate VT | 1,131 | $66K | 14.5% | 1.6% | 4% | D |
| 2,345 | Snead AL | 1,052 | $49K | 14.8% | 1.3% | 6% | D |
| 2,346 | Nickerson KS | 1,051 | $49K | 12.9% | 2.1% | 3% | D |
| 2,347 | Gerald MO | 1,350 | $61K | 14.5% | 6.1% | 5% | 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 Snead, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Snead and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Snead workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snead | – | D | C | 41 min | $48,509 |
| Susan Moore | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Susan Moore: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Snead’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 Snead: questions
What is the median household income in Snead?
$48,509 (±$6,735) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Snead?
14.8%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Snead?
41 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Snead work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Birmingham (9%, 47 mi), Oneonta (8%, 13 mi), Albertville (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Snead walkable?
Snead is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Snead without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Snead, from the people who make the trip.
More of Snead
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.