James Greer Bankhead House · Photo: Alex Bush, HABS photographer · Public domainHousehold incomes in Sulligent trail those of 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Sulligent D−; getting around on foot earns it D. 33.1% of residents are in poverty; Alabama has 15.6%. About one in ten work in Sulligent itself; outside it, Vernon draws the most (10%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sulligent in brief
Sulligent makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Sulligent are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Sulligent residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 37%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Sulligent pay better than its residents’ jobs
72% of the jobs based in Sulligent pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 48% of the jobs Sulligent residents hold. 86% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Sulligent. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 687 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Sulligent’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Sulligent is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Sulligent’s grade.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Sulligent’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sulligent stays D−.
Factories, building and farms: 60% of the jobs in Sulligent
569 jobs are based in Sulligent.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sulligent, 2013 → 2023: 705 → 569. 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 Sulligent’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Sulligent
About 31% 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.
In and out of Sulligent on a workday
On a workday 605 residents head out to work, 82 work right here, and 487 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 (0.83 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.
Commuting out of Sulligent: the destinations
Where Sulligent clocks in
10% 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.
Commuting from Sulligent: about 19 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sulligent workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 437 commuters (the 6% 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.
Most trips from Sulligent start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sulligent is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sulligent 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 464 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). 8.4% of Sulligent households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sulligent’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sulligent compares with U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 357 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 470 | Vance AL | 2,332 | $95K | 7.3% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,231 | Greensboro AL | 2,195 | $27K | 42.1% | 5.8% | 17% | D− |
| 5,232 | Flomaton AL | 1,440 | $43K | 31.0% | 7.1% | 7% | D− |
| 5,233 | Sulligent AL | 1,812 | $35K | 33.1% | 2.1% | 12% | D− |
| 5,234 | Moore Haven FL | 1,745 | $40K | 26.3% | 12.2% | 7% | D− |
| 5,235 | Jonesville LA | 1,531 | $44K | 34.3% | 6.4% | 23% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Sulligent, 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 Sulligent: questions
What is the median household income in Sulligent?
$34,861 (±$9,759) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sulligent?
33.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sulligent?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sulligent work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vernon (10%, 9 mi), Hamilton (9%, 19 mi), Winfield (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sulligent walkable?
Sulligent is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sulligent without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sulligent, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sulligent
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.