With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Wilsonville works elsewhere
Employers in Wilsonville report 121 jobs; 777 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Wilsonville are C for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 1% work in Wilsonville; the top destination outside it is Birmingham (15%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wilsonville: the figures worth knowing
Wilsonville is a place people come home to
There are 121 jobs based in Wilsonville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wilsonville has about 1,400 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Wilsonville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wilsonville is Birmingham, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (114) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Wilsonville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 777 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Wilsonville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wilsonville is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Wilsonville’s grade up ($72,115, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (17.0%) is left out: Wilsonville’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, Wilsonville could be anywhere from D to B+.
Wilsonville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 767 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 111 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Wilsonville on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Wilsonville
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.
About 36 minutes each way, longer than most of Alabama
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilsonville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 616 commuters (the 8% 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.
Commuting out of Wilsonville: the destinations
Where Wilsonville clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
What Wilsonville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilsonville, 2014 → 2024: 294 → 121. 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 Wilsonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Wilsonville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wilsonville is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wilsonville 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 669 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.4% of Wilsonville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wilsonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wilsonville next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700: 3,390th of 5,509 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 398 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 452 | Trinity AL | 2,638 | $101K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,388 | Bloom Township OH | 2,620 | $58K | 13.9% | 2.4% | 5% | C |
| 3,389 | Liberty Township OH | 1,994 | $64K | 12.3% | 5.6% | 3% | C |
| 3,390 | Wilsonville AL | 2,015 | $72K | 16.4% | 17.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,391 | Stuart IA | 1,882 | $65K | 14.0% | 4.7% | 8% | C |
| 3,392 | Olivet MI | 1,525 | $55K | 14.6% | 12.8% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Wilsonville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
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 Wilsonville: questions
What is the median household income in Wilsonville?
$72,115 (±$17,159) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilsonville?
16.4%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilsonville?
36 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilsonville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Birmingham (15%, 26 mi), Hoover (8%, 21 mi), Columbiana (8%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wilsonville walkable?
Wilsonville is more walkable than 11% 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 Wilsonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilsonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilsonville
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.