Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY 4.0Whitesboro has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Whitesboro has 34 jobs, against 774 working residents. For jobs and income Whitesboro is better than 58% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (D−). Hardly any stay in Whitesboro for work; outside it, Albertville is the main destination (20%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Whitesboro at work: what stands out
Why Whitesboro gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Whitesboro’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($67,188, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Whitesboro’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Whitesboro could be anywhere from C to A−.
Whitesboro on a workday afternoon
On a workday 769 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Whitesboro on a workday afternoon, 39% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Whitesboro work
Where Whitesboro clocks in
20% of workers
13% of workers
11% 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.
Goods jobs make up 47% of work in Whitesboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Whitesboro, 2014 → 2024: 54 → 34. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Whitesboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Whitesboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Whitesboro workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 826 commuters (the 6% 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.
The commute from Whitesboro, by distance
About 24% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Whitesboro walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 875 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). 0.0% of Whitesboro households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Whitesboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600, Whitesboro ranks 1,881st of 5,921 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 87 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 403 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,879 | Greenfield Township MN | 1,308 | $91K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,880 | Spring Valley Township OH | 2,565 | $98K | 8.3% | 8.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,881 | Whitesboro AL | 1,918 | $67K | 3.9% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,882 | Hayden AL | 1,333 | $80K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,883 | New London IA | 1,850 | $78K | 8.4% | 2.6% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Whitesboro, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
How Whitesboro compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Whitesboro workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitesboro | – | B | D− | 27 min | $67,188 |
| Carlisle-Rockledge | under 2% | D | D− | 28 min | $60,360 |
| Sardis City | 3% | C | C− | 25 min | $67,721 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Sardis City. Darker towns draw more of Whitesboro’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 2024, 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 Whitesboro: questions
What is the median household income in Whitesboro?
$67,188 (±$26,341) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Whitesboro?
3.9%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Whitesboro?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Whitesboro work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albertville (20%, 11 mi), Boaz (13%, 6 mi), Gadsden (11%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Whitesboro walkable?
Whitesboro is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Whitesboro 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 Whitesboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Whitesboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.