Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Anniston has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Anniston has 16 jobs, and 68 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Anniston itself; outside it, Sikeston draws the most (21%, 15 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 13% across Missouri.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Anniston: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 68 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 16 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Anniston on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 Anniston goes to work
Where Anniston clocks in
21% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 88% of the jobs in Anniston
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Anniston, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 16. 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 Anniston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 17 minutes from Anniston
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Anniston workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% 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.
How far Anniston goes to work
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 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 Anniston: questions
What is the poverty rate in Anniston?
17.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Anniston?
17 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Anniston work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sikeston (21%, 15 mi), East Prairie (9%, 4 mi), Charleston (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Anniston without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Anniston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Anniston
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.