Earning a living in Toxey
The trip to work takes 74 minutes on average, next to 26 for Alabama and 26 for the U.S. For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Alabama has 9%. Hardly any work in Toxey itself; outside it, Butler draws the most (10%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Toxey fills up on a workday
On a workday 48 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 65 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Toxey on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 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.
Where Toxey goes to work
Where Toxey clocks in
10% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Toxey
65 jobs are based in Toxey.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Toxey, 2013 → 2023: 63 → 65. 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 Toxey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Toxey: about 74 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 23.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Toxey workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 106 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Toxey
About 51% 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.
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 Toxey: questions
What is the median household income in Toxey?
$62,857 (±$35,023) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Toxey?
0.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Toxey?
74 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Toxey work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Butler (10%, 14 mi), Mobile (10%, 87 mi), Thomasville (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Toxey without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Toxey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Toxey
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.