Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domainWith 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Vinegar Bend works elsewhere
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 9% across Alabama. Vinegar Bend has 12 jobs for 60 working residents. Only 2% work in Vinegar Bend itself; outside it, Mobile draws the most (20%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Vinegar Bend
On a workday 59 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 61 people are in Vinegar Bend on a workday afternoon, 44% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Vinegar Bend commutes to
Where Vinegar Bend clocks in
20% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Vinegar Bend
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Vinegar Bend’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Vinegar Bend
of Vinegar Bend workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9 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 Vinegar Bend
About 38% 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 Vinegar Bend: questions
What is the median household income in Vinegar Bend?
$13,787 (±$727) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vinegar Bend?
76.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Vinegar Bend work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mobile (20%, 44 mi), Citronelle (8%, 13 mi), Bay Minette (3%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Vinegar Bend without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vinegar Bend, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vinegar Bend
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.