Yellow Bluff draws 332 commuters a day, with 6.3 jobs for every working resident
Only 6% stay in Yellow Bluff for work; outside it, Thomasville is the main destination (9%, 16 miles). Employers in Yellow Bluff report 335 jobs; 53 of its residents have a job. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Alabama as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Yellow Bluff’s population more than doubles on a workday
On a workday 50 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 490 people are in Yellow Bluff on a workday afternoon, 137% more 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.
Who travels to work in Yellow Bluff, and from where
Where Yellow Bluff clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Yellow Bluff works in goods: 99% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yellow Bluff, 2013 → 2023: 193 → 335. 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 Yellow Bluff’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Yellow Bluff
of Yellow Bluff workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17 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.
Miles to work from Yellow Bluff
About 43% 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 Yellow Bluff: questions
What is the poverty rate in Yellow Bluff?
68.5%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Yellow Bluff work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thomasville (9%, 16 mi), Camden (8%, 11 mi), Huntsville (4%, 195 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Yellow Bluff without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 28% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yellow Bluff, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yellow Bluff
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.