Shoal Creek Church · Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0White Plains has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 1% work in White Plains; the top destination outside it is Anniston (29%, 9 miles). Employers in White Plains report 70 jobs; 296 of its residents have a job. The average commute takes 40 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set White Plains apart
White Plains workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 40 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 307 hours of commuting, 107 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
White Plains is a place people come home to
There are 70 jobs based in White Plains, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday White Plains has about 690 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
29% of White Plains works in Anniston
86 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Anniston, 9.2 miles away. That’s 29 times as many as work in White Plains itself. The commute map ↓
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 296 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
About 40 minutes each way, longer than most of Alabama
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of White Plains workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 324 commuters (the 9% 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 and out of White Plains on a workday
On a workday 292 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in White Plains on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where people from White Plains work
Where White Plains clocks in
29% of workers
11% 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.
A place that makes things: 61% of White Plains’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Plains, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 70. 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 White Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from White Plains
About 23% 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 White Plains: questions
What is the median household income in White Plains?
$60,918 (±$15,225) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in White Plains?
4.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from White Plains?
40 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in White Plains work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Anniston (29%, 9 mi), Oxford (11%, 15 mi), Gadsden (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around White Plains without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from White Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of White Plains
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.