US Post Office-Albion · Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainMaking a living in Albion
Albion grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About two in five work in Albion itself; outside it, Columbus draws the most (5%, 37 miles). Home is the office for 5% of workers, next to 11% for Nebraska as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Albion’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Albion is better than 39% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Albion’s grade up (6.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Albion’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Albion could be anywhere from C to B−.
How many people are in Albion by day
On a workday 501 residents head out to work, 357 work right here, and 810 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Albion on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.36 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Albion’s residents
Where Albion clocks in
5% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Jobs in Albion: what the 1,167 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Albion, 2013 → 2023: 1,108 → 1,167. 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 Albion’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Albion’s commute takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Albion workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 810 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Nebraska: 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.
Albion’s commute, mile by mile
About 22% 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.
Getting around Albion: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Albion is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Albion 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 852 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). 5.2% of Albion households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Albion’s commuters take a bus or train.
Albion is 2,820th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 187 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 266 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Beaver Lake NE | 2,114 | $122K | 1.7% | 3.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,818 | Limestone Township PA | 1,952 | $72K | 9.6% | 2.5% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,819 | Midway FL | 1,407 | $61K | 17.2% | 5.4% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,820 | Albion NE | 1,735 | $74K | 6.8% | 1.5% | 42% | C+ |
| 2,821 | Oakes ND | 1,765 | $68K | 12.1% | 1.7% | 36% | C+ |
| 2,822 | Pine Island TX | 1,271 | $55K | 12.9% | 5.4% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Albion, the top three, the last and three more from Nebraska.
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 Albion: questions
What is the median household income in Albion?
$74,492 (±$7,349) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Albion?
6.8%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Albion?
16 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Albion work?
42% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (5%, 37 mi), Omaha (4%, 105 mi), Norfolk (2%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Albion walkable?
Albion is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Albion without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Albion, from the people who make the trip.
More of Albion
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. 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.