Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Trinity are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns
Trinity grades A for jobs and income and D for walkability. 3.1% of residents are in poverty, against 15.6% across Alabama. 2% of workers work from home, next to 9% for Alabama as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Trinity and work: the main findings
Jobs in Trinity have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Trinity went from 438 in 2013 to 1,250 in 2023, +185%. The jobs ↓
Trinity trades workers with the towns around it
Trinity has about as many jobs (1,250) as working residents (1,082), but they are mostly different people: 1,053 residents leave for work each day while 1,221 people come in. Only 2% of the jobs in Trinity are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Trinity makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Trinity are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Trinity residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
Trinity and Decatur trade workers both ways
Decatur is the top workplace for Trinity residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Trinity come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most jobs in Trinity pay over $40,000 a year
73% of the jobs based in Trinity pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Trinity’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Trinity is better than 87% of U.S. towns, #21 of 187 in Alabama. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Trinity could be anywhere from B to A+.
Trinity makes things: 57% of its jobs are in goods
1,250 jobs are based in Trinity.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Trinity, 2013 → 2023: 438 → 1,250. 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 Trinity’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,053 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 1,221 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 (1.16 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.
33% of working residents work in Decatur
Where Trinity clocks in
33% of workers
18% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Trinity
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Trinity workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,197 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.
How far Trinity’s workers travel
About 15% 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 Trinity, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Trinity is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns, #160 of 187 in Alabama. Both inputs place Trinity 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 1,225 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). 0.4% of Trinity households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Trinity’s commuters take a bus or train.
Trinity is 500th of 5,278 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,600 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Eagle Point AL | 3,110 | $152K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 266 | Emerald Mountain AL | 3,535 | $123K | 2.2% | 1.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 498 | Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley CA | 2,127 | $159K | 7.9% | 1.0% | 3% | A |
| 499 | Jefferson Township IN | 2,299 | $105K | 5.5% | 1.4% | 3% | A |
| 500 | Trinity AL | 2,638 | $101K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 3% | A |
| 501 | Simpsonville KY | 3,183 | $91K | 6.8% | 1.8% | 5% | A |
| 502 | Liverpool NY | 2,231 | $87K | 6.3% | 2.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,278 | 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 Trinity, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
Work next door: 33% of Trinity’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Decatur. Darker towns draw more of Trinity’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 Trinity: questions
What is the median household income in Trinity?
$100,929 (±$15,818) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Trinity?
3.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Trinity?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Trinity work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Decatur (33%, 6 mi), Huntsville (18%, 24 mi), Madison (3%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Trinity walkable?
Trinity is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Trinity 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 Trinity, from the people who make the trip.
More of Trinity
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.