More than half of Taylor’s working residents commute to Dothan
Only 2% work in Taylor; the top destination outside it is Dothan (53%, 6 miles). For jobs and income Taylor is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (D). 2% of workers work from home, where Alabama as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Taylor in brief
More than half of Taylor works in Dothan
489 working residents, 53%, have their main job in Dothan, 6.1 miles away across the town line. That’s 27 times as many as work in Taylor itself. The commute map ↓
Most Taylor residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Taylor
54% of Taylor residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 30% of the jobs based in Taylor pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. 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 921 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Taylor earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Taylor’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (16.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Taylor could be anywhere from D to A−.
The towns that employ Taylor’s residents
Where Taylor clocks in
53% of workers
2% 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.
How far Taylor goes to work
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.
Taylor makes things: 38% of its jobs are in goods
588 jobs are based in Taylor.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taylor, 2013 → 2023: 231 → 588. 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 Taylor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Taylor, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 905 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 572 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Taylor on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Taylor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taylor workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,267 commuters (the 2% 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.
In Taylor, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,287 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). 0.8% of Taylor households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Taylor’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Taylor ranks: 3,303rd of 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 395 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,301 | New Lebanon NY | 2,477 | $76K | 10.7% | 5.1% | 14% | C |
| 3,302 | Central TN | 1,938 | $37K | 11.7% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,303 | Taylor AL | 2,359 | $67K | 16.0% | 6.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,304 | Gosnell AR | 2,663 | $61K | 21.6% | 2.3% | 6% | C |
| 3,305 | Mount Morris IL | 2,787 | $46K | 13.8% | 3.5% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Taylor, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Next door is work for 55% of Taylor
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Dothan. Darker towns draw more of Taylor’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 Taylor: questions
What is the median household income in Taylor?
$67,464 (±$13,326) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taylor?
16.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taylor?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taylor work?
2% work in town.
Is Taylor walkable?
Taylor is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taylor without a car?
<1% 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 Taylor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taylor
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.